2008/12/16 Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot(a)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.
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