> On Sat, 18 Apr 1998, Martin Mares wrote:
> > No, it just solves the storage and visual representation part of the
> > problem and leaves the rest to the others.
>
> ...while after all necessary meta-information about language context is
> gone, and there is no way to recover it except by guessing (one charset
"Is gone"? It never was there to begin with. *No* character set that I
have ever heard of has language labelling, so don't blame Unicode for not
having it either.
Most people bashing Unicode seem to do so for two extremely moronic
reasons:
* It's not a simple 8 bit character set. This is work!
Well duh, there's more than 256 characters around. You _can't_ do this
with a simple 8 bit character set. And if you want to see a really ugly
solution, look at ISO 2022 - the "just give up" solution.
* It doesn't solve problem X that no other character set solves either.
Well duh. Quelle surprise. What else is new?
MfG Kai
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