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Re: wchar_t is useless

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On 11/21/2011 11:17 AM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
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> You get a lot of internationalization mileage out of the BMP. Actually all the
> mileage. Above U+FFFF there is only academic crap.

Academics have a need for software support too. One of my old friends
has a husband who works mainly with dead languages; when I met him in
1990 he could read and write 14 of them; he's probably added more since
then. I suspect he would find software that supported Plane 1 useful.

The sources I checked didn't give any indication how adequate the BMP
characters are for representing Chinese text. If the Unified Han
Ideographs in Plane 2 are in fact needed for some purpose, there's a
very large number of Chinese who would need them. That's hardly an
academic issue.

> ... Anyone who cares about those
> characters is likely also going to be some kind of "freetard" who won't pay a
> dime for software.

As a professional software developer myself, I fully agree with the idea
of paying people for their work. However, why should anyone buy software
when they have free software available that is of acceptable quality,
containing all the features they require?

The only reason I can make money developing software is that there's no
one willing to give away software that does what mine does, and that's
just the way it should be.

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wchar_t is useless Lauri Alanko <la@iki.fi> - 2011-11-21 14:14 +0000
  Re: wchar_t is useless Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2011-11-21 16:17 +0000
    Re: wchar_t is useless James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2011-11-21 12:27 -0500
      Re: wchar_t is useless jgk@panix.com (Joe keane) - 2011-11-24 20:07 +0000
        Re: wchar_t is useless Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2011-11-24 21:16 +0000
          Re: wchar_t is useless James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2011-11-24 17:15 -0500
        Re: wchar_t is useless Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-11-24 13:49 -0800
          Re: wchar_t is useless Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2011-11-27 10:33 +0000
        Re: wchar_t is useless Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2011-11-25 14:17 +0000
          Re: wchar_t is useless Vincenzo Mercuri <vincenzo.mercuri@yahoo.it> - 2011-11-25 15:27 +0100
            Re: wchar_t is useless Vincenzo Mercuri <vincenzo.mercuri@yahoo.it> - 2011-11-25 15:29 +0100
    Re: wchar_t is useless Dann Corbit <dcorbit@connx.com> - 2011-11-22 09:50 -0800
  Re: wchar_t is useless blp@cs.stanford.edu (Ben Pfaff) - 2011-11-21 10:42 -0800
    Re: wchar_t is useless jmclnx@SPAMisBADgmail.com (Jack McCue) - 2011-11-21 19:18 +0000
    Re: wchar_t is useless Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2011-11-21 21:02 +0000
      Re: wchar_t is useless Lauri Alanko <la@iki.fi> - 2011-11-21 22:07 +0000
        Re: wchar_t is useless Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2011-11-21 23:54 +0000
          Re: wchar_t is useless Lauri Alanko <la@iki.fi> - 2011-11-22 01:15 +0000
            Re: wchar_t is useless Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2011-11-22 01:57 +0000
              Re: wchar_t is useless Lauri Alanko <la@iki.fi> - 2011-11-22 09:28 +0000
  Re: wchar_t is useless Acid Washed China Blue Jeans <chine.bleu@yahoo.com> - 2011-11-21 11:11 -0800
  Re: wchar_t is useless "christian.bau" <christian.bau@cbau.wanadoo.co.uk> - 2011-11-24 08:43 -0800
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