Comments on: Unicode is fucking stupid - the definitive article. http://trilema.com/2016/unicode-is-fucking-stupid-the-definitive-article/ Moving targets for a fast crowd. Wed, 13 May 2026 21:31:32 +0000 http://polimedia.us hourly 1 By: MySQL in Gales 3: debug, rebug « Fixpoint http://trilema.com/2016/unicode-is-fucking-stupid-the-definitive-article/#comment-166314 MySQL in Gales 3: debug, rebug « Fixpoint Sun, 07 Nov 2021 08:38:17 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=70190#comment-166314 [...] perfectly thread-safe mechanism of an array of constant error strings? I expect it's to allow for internationalization, you know, so that subtle terms of art like "Text file busy" can be butchered into the vernacular [...] [...] perfectly thread-safe mechanism of an array of constant error strings? I expect it's to allow for internationalization, you know, so that subtle terms of art like "Text file busy" can be butchered into the vernacular [...]

]]> By: The last blog on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. http://trilema.com/2016/unicode-is-fucking-stupid-the-definitive-article/#comment-153014 The last blog on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. Fri, 24 Jul 2020 01:44:53 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=70190#comment-153014 [...] it's meanwhile grown into the entire web. What else is there ? [↩]Meanwhile it became Unicode, a genuine systems language in and of and by itself. [↩]The only pantsuit agenda for foreign [...] [...] it's meanwhile grown into the entire web. What else is there ? [↩]Meanwhile it became Unicode, a genuine systems language in and of and by itself. [↩]The only pantsuit agenda for foreign [...]

]]> By: Modernism ; and traditionalism on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. http://trilema.com/2016/unicode-is-fucking-stupid-the-definitive-article/#comment-142876 Modernism ; and traditionalism on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. Wed, 08 Jan 2020 09:47:29 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=70190#comment-142876 [...] What cares the cotton ginny whether you are white or black skinned ? And this is what all the Unicode wastage is : they, the lost souls of a dead world, are trying to make computers more like cotton ginnies. [...] [...] What cares the cotton ginny whether you are white or black skinned ? And this is what all the Unicode wastage is : they, the lost souls of a dead world, are trying to make computers more like cotton ginnies. [...]

]]> By: Argentina, smaller than Eulora on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. http://trilema.com/2016/unicode-is-fucking-stupid-the-definitive-article/#comment-142853 Argentina, smaller than Eulora on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. Wed, 08 Jan 2020 09:45:21 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=70190#comment-142853 [...] measurement. It works not in the systematic manner you expect measurements to work, but in a very Unicode-like manner : it includes its own encoding scheme, resulting in knight's fees that were larger or [...] [...] measurement. It works not in the systematic manner you expect measurements to work, but in a very Unicode-like manner : it includes its own encoding scheme, resulting in knight's fees that were larger or [...]

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