[Oberon] Project Oberon for Mac

[eas lab]

 Yes Unicode is marvelous, eg if you want to render Japanese & Malayalam and ...
Why do they only <translate> the <single quote> ?
Why not the "p" and the "s"?
Then we could have a repertoire of speech impediments of stuttering
and lithththping.

If we wanted to follow the 86.147% herd, we wouldn't deviate from WinTel,
by looking at Oberon.

== Chris Glur.




On 1/23/16, Alexander Ilin <ajsoft at yandex.ru> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> 23.01.2016, 10:46, "Douglas G. Danforth" <danforth at greenwoodfarm.com>:
>> On 1/22/2016 3:38 AM, eas lab wrote:
>>> Who started this absurdity of replacing single-quote/apostrophe by 3
>>> bytes.
>> UTF-8 is a character encoding capable of encoding all possible characters,
>> or code points, in Unicode.
> ...
>
>   I guess the eas lab's problem is he'd like to see the typewriter
> apostrophe, which is a simplified version of the symbol present in the ASCII
> standard. It has decimal code 39, and therefore can be represented with only
> one byte in UTF-8, making it compatible with older (ASCII-based) software.
>
>   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostrophe
>
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> Александр
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