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Simplicity is better than complexity.Simplicity is better than complexity.Posted Mar 26, 2009 2:49 UTC (Thu) by njs (guest, #40338)In reply to: Simplicity is better than complexity. by k8to Parent article: Wheeler: Fixing Unix/Linux/POSIX Filenames
Have you ever written a program where it was important to handle filename character sets Right? Were you able to do so?
(My opinion on this issue is strongly influenced by writing the filesystem interaction code for a VCS. Users in different locales may want to work on the same project, but they write the same filenames differently, and some charsets may not be able to even represent filenames created in other locales, and...)
There are arguments for the current system, but "simplicity" is really not one of them.
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Simplicity is better than complexity. Posted Mar 27, 2009 0:46 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
But handling multiple charsets is so simple!
(As in, I looked at XEmacs/MULE's code and my brain dribbled out of my
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