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afterthought i18n and the conservative software culture

Posted Jun 3, 2006 8:50 UTC (Sat) by nim-nim (subscriber, #34454)
In reply to: afterthought i18n and the conservative software culture by tjc
Parent article: SQL injection vulnerabilities in PostgreSQL

> Just wanting to be PC isn't very motivating for most people.

I don't see where the PC angle is when it ends up in security bugs (and this is not an isolated case). You're just confirming what I wrote.

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Posted Jun 3, 2006 15:59 UTC (Sat) by tjc (subscriber, #137) [Link]

Yeah, you're right about the security aspect.

I was referring to the big political war that has dogged Unicode. It got ugly. It probably still is, but I don't seem to care anymore.