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Re: Fun with Unicode and Julia - IainDunning.com

From "Andy K." <andy.k466@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.misc
Subject Re: Fun with Unicode and Julia - IainDunning.com
Date 2014-03-02 18:25 +0100
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On Wed, 26 Feb 2014 12:48:28 +0000
Peter Percival <peterxpercival@hotmail.com> wrote:

> But what they are saying is only part of the story.  If the customer 
> wants to read the output of a program in his native language, why 
> shouldn't he?

That's fine and dandy, and most modern software does that already. This is not
about Unicode in the output, but in the code itself, where ASCII is perfectly
sufficient (at least I never felt constrained in this regard).

Still, the article allowed us an interesting look through a window into an
alternate programming reality. :)

-- 
Andy

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Fun with Unicode and Julia - IainDunning.com RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-23 19:29 +0000
  Re: Fun with Unicode and Julia - IainDunning.com Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2014-02-23 15:26 -0500
    Re: Fun with Unicode and Julia - IainDunning.com Koen <koen.lefever@gmail.com> - 2014-02-23 21:11 +0000
      Re: Fun with Unicode and Julia - IainDunning.com RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-24 08:55 +0000
        Re: Fun with Unicode and Julia - IainDunning.com Peter Percival <peterxpercival@hotmail.com> - 2014-02-26 12:48 +0000
          Re: Fun with Unicode and Julia - IainDunning.com "Andy K." <andy.k466@gmail.com> - 2014-03-02 18:25 +0100
      Re: Fun with Unicode and Julia - IainDunning.com dialmove <dialmove@gmail.com> - 2014-02-26 12:15 +0000
        Re: Fun with Unicode and Julia - IainDunning.com Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-03-03 17:10 +0100
      Re: Fun with Unicode and Julia - IainDunning.com Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-02-26 15:27 +0200

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