Unicode

Posted by Nico Golde in random blurb
Monday, September 19. 2005

Thanks Joey Hess

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I see this is as criticism against Unicode, and I disagree. Unicode itself is great, but it is poorly implemented quite often because of lack of understanding of programmers. A good example is your weblog, where I paste real cyrillic characters into the input field, but your blog only prints out entities (at least in the preview):
Ющенко

#1 ak (Homepage) on 2005-09-19 16:23 (Reply)

Yes but as long as the implementations suck I see no reason to do propaganda for it like others do.

#2 nion (Homepage) on 2005-09-19 16:32 (Reply)

But if it's good and it doesn't get promoted, how could it ever take off?

#3 ak (Homepage) on 2005-09-19 22:42 (Reply)

What about which implementations sucks about it?

#4 LarstiQ on 2005-09-23 21:00 (Reply)

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