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Re: How to waste computer memory?

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Date 2016-03-19 07:01 -0700
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Subject Re: How to waste computer memory?
From wxjmfauth@gmail.com

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Le samedi 19 mars 2016 12:32:25 UTC+1, Steven D'Aprano a écrit :
> On Sat, 19 Mar 2016 09:18 pm, Chris Angelico wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 8:31 PM, Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> wrote:
> >> Unicode made several (understandable but grave) mistakes along the way:
> >>
> >>    * normalization
> >>
> > 
> > Elaborate please? What's such a big mistake here?
> 
> As usual, Unicode problems are generally due to backwards compatibility.
> Blame the old legacy encodings, which invented the "dead keys"
> a.k.a. "combining character" technique. Of course, they had a reasonable
> excuse at the time, but Unicode's requirement of being able to losslessly
> handle all legacy character set standards means that Unicode has to provide
> the same functionality.
> 
> The problem is not so much the existence of combining characters, but that
> *some* but not all accented characters are available in two forms: a
> composed single code point, and a decomposed pair of code points. This adds
> complexity and means that equality of characters is not well-defined.
> (Hence Unicode punts on the whole "character" thing and just talks about
> code points.)
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Steven

I'm laughing, i'm laughing. You do not imagine how
I'm laughing...

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How to waste computer memory? wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2016-03-17 07:34 -0700
  Re: How to waste computer memory? Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2016-03-17 12:21 -0700
    Re: How to waste computer memory? cl@isbd.net - 2016-03-17 20:31 +0000
      Re: How to waste computer memory? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-03-18 07:42 +1100
        Re: How to waste computer memory? Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2016-03-17 21:08 +0000
          Re: How to waste computer memory? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-03-18 08:13 +1100
            Re: How to waste computer memory? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2016-03-17 14:30 -0700
          Re: How to waste computer memory? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-03-17 22:32 +0000
          Re: How to waste computer memory? cl@isbd.net - 2016-03-17 22:42 +0000
        Re: How to waste computer memory? Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2016-03-17 23:11 +0200
          Re: How to waste computer memory? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-03-18 08:17 +1100
          Re: How to waste computer memory? BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-03-17 21:26 +0000
            Re: How to waste computer memory? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-03-17 22:38 +0000
            Re: How to waste computer memory? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-03-18 10:02 +1100
        Re: How to waste computer memory? alister <alister.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2016-03-17 21:37 +0000
          Re: How to waste computer memory? alister <alister.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2016-03-17 21:43 +0000
          Re: How to waste computer memory? Gene Heskett <gheskett@wdtv.com> - 2016-03-17 20:51 -0400
            Re: How to waste computer memory? Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2016-03-17 18:47 -0700
            Re: How to waste computer memory? cl@isbd.net - 2016-03-18 10:44 +0000
              Re: How to waste computer memory? Gene Heskett <gheskett@wdtv.com> - 2016-03-18 10:11 -0400
              Re: How to waste computer memory? Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2016-03-19 13:50 +0000
    Re: How to waste computer memory? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2016-03-18 01:00 -0600
      Re: How to waste computer memory? Jussi Piitulainen <jussi.piitulainen@helsinki.fi> - 2016-03-18 10:26 +0200
        Re: How to waste computer memory? Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2016-03-18 17:26 +0200
          Re: How to waste computer memory? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-03-19 03:58 +1100
          Re: How to waste computer memory? Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2016-03-18 23:02 +0200
            Re: How to waste computer memory? Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2016-03-18 23:28 +0200
              Re: How to waste computer memory? Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2016-03-19 00:03 +0200
                Re: How to waste computer memory? Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2016-03-19 09:49 +0200
                Re: How to waste computer memory? Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2016-03-19 10:22 +0200
                Re: How to waste computer memory? Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2016-03-19 11:40 +0200
                Re: How to waste computer memory? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-03-19 19:38 +1100
            Re: How to waste computer memory? wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2016-03-19 00:14 -0700
              Re: How to waste computer memory? wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2016-03-19 02:17 -0700
            Re: How to waste computer memory? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-03-19 19:14 +1100
              Re: How to waste computer memory? Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2016-03-19 11:31 +0200
                Re: How to waste computer memory? wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2016-03-19 03:40 -0700
                Re: How to waste computer memory? Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2016-03-19 13:07 +0200
                Re: How to waste computer memory? BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-03-19 12:24 +0000
                Re: How to waste computer memory? Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2016-03-19 14:43 +0200
                Re: How to waste computer memory? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-03-20 01:18 +1100
                Re: How to waste computer memory? BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-03-19 15:14 +0000
                Re: How to waste computer memory? BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-03-19 15:20 +0000
                Re: How to waste computer memory? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-03-19 22:32 +1100
                Re: How to waste computer memory? Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2016-03-19 14:42 +0200
                Re: How to waste computer memory? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-03-20 01:39 +1100
                Re: How to waste computer memory? Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2016-03-19 16:56 +0200
                Re: How to waste computer memory? wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2016-03-19 07:01 -0700
                Re: How to waste computer memory? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-03-20 01:56 +1100
                Re: How to waste computer memory? Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2016-03-19 17:02 +0200
                Re: How to waste computer memory? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-03-20 02:47 +1100
                Re: How to waste computer memory? Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2016-03-19 18:12 +0200
                Re: How to waste computer memory? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-03-20 16:01 +1100
                Re: How to waste computer memory? Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2016-03-19 23:20 -0700
                Re: How to waste computer memory? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-03-20 22:06 +1100
                Re: How to waste computer memory? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-03-20 22:22 +1100
                Re: How to waste computer memory? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-03-20 23:14 +1100
                Re: How to waste computer memory? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-03-20 23:27 +1100
                Re: How to waste computer memory? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-03-20 14:55 +0000
                Re: How to waste computer memory? Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2016-03-20 17:36 +0200
                Re: How to waste computer memory? Random832 <random832@fastmail.com> - 2016-03-20 14:17 -0400
                Re: How to waste computer memory? Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2016-03-20 09:30 +0200
      Re: How to waste computer memory? wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2016-03-18 03:50 -0700
      Re: How to waste computer memory? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-03-18 22:46 +1100
        Re: How to waste computer memory? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-03-18 22:58 +1100
          Re: How to waste computer memory? wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2016-03-18 12:53 -0700
        Re: How to waste computer memory? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-03-18 23:37 +1100
        Re: How to waste computer memory? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2016-03-18 07:57 -0600
    Re: How to waste computer memory? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-03-19 03:44 +1100
      Re: How to waste computer memory? Jussi Piitulainen <jussi.piitulainen@helsinki.fi> - 2016-03-18 20:22 +0200
        Re: How to waste computer memory? wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2016-03-18 13:03 -0700
  Re: How to waste computer memory? sohcahtoa82@gmail.com - 2016-03-18 11:18 -0700

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