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On 2014-05-01 23:38, Terry Reedy wrote:
> On 5/1/2014 2:04 PM, Rustom Mody wrote:
>
>>>> Since its Unicode-troll time, here's my contribution
>>>> http://blog.languager.org/2014/04/unicode-and-unix-assumption.html
>
> I will not comment on the Unix-assumption part, but I think you go wrong
> with this:  "Unicode is a Headache". The major headache is that unicode
> and its very few encodings are not universally used. The headache is all
> the non-unicode legacy encodings still being used. So you better title
> this section 'Non-Unicode is a Headache'.
>
[snip]
I think he's right when he says "Unicode is a headache", but only
because it's being used to handle languages which are, themselves, a
"headache": left-to-right versus right-to-left, sometimes on the same
line; diacritics, possibly several on a glyph; etc.