2008/12/16 Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mailhot@laposte.net:
Le mardi 16 décembre 2008 à 19:32 +0200, Muayyad AlSadi a écrit :
Currently, I'm opposed to having a Guideline that mandates UTF-8 over ASCII.
+1
please just "" or '' the use of UTF-8 fancy quotations should be done by the renderer
No it should not. This is the road to incompatible software and piles of quirks (as in, everyone just has to edit text in Microsoft word because input and rendering logic has been implemented there instead of a generic standard encoding level)
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Currently, I'm opposed to having a Guideline that mandates UTF-8 over ASCII.
+1
It's not piles of quirks it's a simple parser. Take wiki syntax for example. All wikis(i know) rely on simple syntax that uses ASCII characters to display somewhat structured and formatted content. And it's common to use "*" to mark unordered list. And also different languages have different types of quotes for example in Bulgarian the quoted text looks like this : ,, quote " . And if someone wants to translate the package summary he must go trough the UTF symbol table to find the specific quote symbol. This can be simply solved with a parser.
The representation should be different from the content.
And if a machine will display some text to a person then machine code must be written.