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Ancient Dragon · Jun 22nd, 2005, 11:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Eggbert

>have you ever seen or even heard of an operating system in English or other
>western languages whose character set is just a jumbled up mess!
Yes, as a matter of fact, I have. I've been bitten by the 'jumbled up mess' of character sets enough times to seriously consider every assumption I might make. If you have written cross-platform programs for any length of time, you'll know that the first assumption you make will be the topic of the first bug report from your biggest customer, at 2:00am, on a Sunday, because any delay in deploying a fix will cost them a fortune. One tries to avoid calls like that.

Ok, Ok, I'll eat my words and just go troll the lounge for the rest of the day. :p

Ooble · Jun 22nd, 2005, 12:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Ancient Dragon

Ok, Ok, I'll eat my words and just go troll the lounge for the rest of the way. :p

That's the smartest thing I've read in this entire thread.

I've been following this, and I thank you guys for the info - could come in handy one day.

Eggbert · Jun 22nd, 2005, 1:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Ancient Dragon

Ok, Ok, I'll eat my words and just go troll the lounge for the rest of the way. :p

No insult intended of course. I'm just a very stubborn man. These days one isn't likely to see character sets other than those supporting expected sequences anywhere but on exotic systems. However, because C runs on many, if not all, of those exotic systems, it would be a good idea to write robust programs in the face of potential portability problems.

Or you could write robust programs to avoid being nitpicked by stubborn neo-fascist standards nazis like me.

Ooble · Jun 22nd, 2005, 1:18 PM

I didn't mean any insult either, though now I re-read my statement I can see how it could be taken that way. To insure me against an angry dragon, I'll say this: I didn't mean you were stupid - I meant the Lounge is the whole point of this forum.

Ancient Dragon · Jun 22nd, 2005, 3:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Ooble

I didn't mean any insult either, though now I re-read my statement I can see how it could be taken that way. To insure me against an angry dragon, I'll say this: I didn't mean you were stupid - I meant the Lounge is the whole point of this forum.

I can't be insulted -- completly immune to that by now, so don't worry about it. And I didn't read you post that way anyway.

DaWei: thanks for the compliment (calling me son!). I feel 40 years younger now

DaWei · Jun 22nd, 2005, 5:53 PM

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I feel 40 years younger now

OK, I'll give ya a hunnert bucks to call me son!

nnxion · Jun 28th, 2005, 12:09 PM

I'd call ya dad, then again that would endanger my position

Jun 22nd, 2005, 1:18 PM	#24
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Jun 28th, 2005, 12:09 PM	#27
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