Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!nntp.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Andreas Eder Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Unicode, not Recent history of vi Followup-To: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2025 16:41:25 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 28 Message-ID: <87a4zvbot6.fsf@eder.anydns.info> References: <10ga6r1$7ph$1@news.misty.com> <10gpatq$jpt$3@news.misty.com> <10gte9a$2cpi$1@gal.iecc.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2025 16:00:01 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="2c0c3a78ab27726e6f7cf40a06c15b6a"; logging-data="2689639"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+iv+6KOJetk5PH3oLqPZUt" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Cancel-Lock: sha1:yWuSxZ3DGadOxLu4G6h1x9lEv+o= sha1:I3fZjatgPKZqPUVs+uXYrYhsCak= Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:78370 alt.folklore.computers:232394 On Fr 05 Dez 2025 at 01:59, John Levine wrote: > According to Johnny Billquist : >>A big part of the problem is that Unicode don't even seem to have known >>what problem is was supposed to solve. Was it about representing >>different characters that have different meanings? Was it about >>representing same characters but with different visual effects? Was it >>supposed to be some kind of generic system to modify characters through >>some clever system design? > > Nope. > > Unicode is a typesetting language. Nope. It has nothing to do about typesetting, it is about representing the basic entities used for writing in different languages, that is characters, syllables or words. Think of euroean lanfuafes, korean or japanese. > Its goal is to represent every written > language that people use, and it does that quite well. That is correct. 'Andreas -- ceterum censeo redmondinem esse delendam