Re: C and C++, promotion, stabilization, migrationFor embedded

On 2024-08-25, Dave Froble <davef@tsoft-inc.com> wrote:

On 8/23/2024 7:41 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Fri, 23 Aug 2024 19:34:18 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
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UTF-8 in file names, in usernames, in logicals, in identifiers and in
programs/scripts: not really needed.

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I would say these are needed.
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I have to ask, why?
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All the objects mentioned by Arne are in simple terms 'tokens' to represent some
object.  I see no reason for the elements in such tokens to be more complex than
required.  Perhaps a bit more complex than the "A", "B", "C", etc of WEENDOZE
disk names.  But needing everything every user might dream up?  I don't see the
benefit.  Other than perhaps stubbornness and ego of some particular user.  It
just defies the KISS principal, which I find to be useful.
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If I had said "that there was no need for UTF-8 because we will just have
people use British English from now on", then how do you think that would
have come across ?

Yet you have just done the same David. You have just said that if it is
not used in US English then it is not important and the rest of the world
should just learn to restrict itself to US ASCII characters in their use
of filenames, etc.

Contrary to what you Americans believe, the world is MUCH more than just
a single country called the United States. A country that, due to its
own failings and short sightedness, is no longer master of its own destiny.

Simon.

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