[Oberon] Oberon with strings, Eberon

[Joerg]

Lars
As I told you GoLang is Unicode (UTF-8)
Jörg
> Am 25.02.2016 um 00:26 schrieb Lars <noreply at z505.com>:
> 
> On Wed, February 24, 2016 12:47 pm, Richard Hable wrote:
>> Am 2016-02-24 um 04:17 schrieb eas lab:
>> 
>> 
>>> Well ETHO's char-set: not limited to 7-bits ASCII is fine.
>>> It handles all European languages AFAIK.
>>> 
>> 
>> No, it doesn't. Eight bits are not sufficient even for the European
>> languages.
>> 
>>> When/if you need to cater for Arabic, Hindi, Japanese ...
>>> only then, use unicode.  It's called apartheid: the toddlers and
>>> pensioners have different meal-sittings.
>> 
>> You just offended 90 % of the world's population.
>> 
> 
> Not if maybe more than 50 percent of this 90 percent figure already speak
> english...  We assume that these people only speak their native tongue but
> in fact english is more popular.  If english was decided as the standard
> computing language that everyone needed to learn in order to use a
> computer, there would be no need for unicode.
> 
> My views are extreme on this subject because I prefer 1970's ASCII
> programs that can parse char by char without difficulty, back when people
> who bought computers needed (rightly) to learn english to use them.  When
> I watch videos like this explaining the complexity of unicode, I want to
> turn of my computer and not use it, and not program any more, because
> programming in unicode is simply not worth it:
> http://dl.sta.li/slcon/2015/slcon-2015-09-frign-utf-8_everywhere.webm
> 
> The guy in the video is way more optimisitc than I am about unicode. AWK?
> give me a break.
> 
> Unicode can even be used to create viruses and shut down your computer:
> https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/37eti4/new_unicode_of_death_is_spreading/
> 
> Unicode is a joke. Unicode *is* a virus.
> 
> 
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