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Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals?

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On 04-02-2011 17:45, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> In message<ejeok6d6v98ju1tpqt5cq3vhko813q4def@4ax.com>, Roedy Green wrote:
>> Personally, I don’t see the point of any great rush to support 32-bit
>> Unicode. ... The rest I can’t imagine ever using unless I took up a career
>> in anthropology ...
>
> But you, or another programmer, might work for an anthropologist. The
> computer is a universal machine, after all. If a programming language can’t
> support that universality, what good is it?

The idea that a single programming language needs to support
everything is not a good one.

Maybe Java is just not the right language for anthropology.

If they had new that Unicode would go beyond 64K, then they
probably would have come up with a different solution.

But they did not.

And we live it it.

Arne

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Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> - 2011-02-05 11:45 +1300
  Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-02-06 15:38 -0500
  Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals? "javax.swing.JSnarker" <gharriman@boojum.mit.edu> - 2011-02-05 12:59 -0500
  Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals? Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li> - 2011-02-06 15:42 +0000
    Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals? Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li> - 2011-02-06 18:34 +0000
    Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-02-06 11:02 -0500
  Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-02-04 18:17 -0500
    Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-02-09 20:12 -0500
    Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> - 2011-02-10 14:00 +1300
  Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> - 2011-02-05 12:54 +1300
    Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals? Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2011-02-05 13:09 +0000
  Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals? Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-02-04 15:29 -0800

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