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Re: unicode

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Subject	Re: unicode
Date	2011-11-07 21:12 -0800
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On 11/7/2011 7:47 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> If you search the Java bug database then you will see that
> SUN got lots of bug reports including some that were compiler
> bugs about this feature.
>
> Somebody did use the feature.

I'll take a look.

> I find it very difficult to see why people (and their employers) that
> have coded according to spec should suffer to help people that have
> not studied the spec.

It's still a $ and cents equation in my mind.  "Suffering" doesn't enter 
the equation.  No matter what the feature, there's got to be a point 
where it's rational to drop support for it.  Happens all the time.

You may disagree with that in regards to this particular issue, but I'm 
having a somewhat hard time seeing why it isn't obvious in the general 
case: sometimes features must be dropped.

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Re: unicode Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-11-07 21:30 -0500
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    Re: unicode Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-11-07 22:47 -0500
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