From: Benjamin Peterson <bjsp123@...>
Date: 2002-08-13T22:09:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Unicode in Ruby now?

>Which leads to some interesting Orwellian
possibilities: not just
>could people removed from history, but we arrange the
character set so
>that their name cannot even be expressed.

But communication has a way of flowing around such
stumbling blocks; this mail, in fact, purports to hail
from a fictitious world in which all fonts omit a
particular famous non-consonant.  Notwithstanding this
handicap, I find I can still transmit my thoughts
smoothly (although as with UTF-8, it's kind of long
and awkward).

Bnjamin Ptrson


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