From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: [1.7] Proposal: the filename encoding in C locale uses UTF-8 instead of SO/UTF-8
Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 00:06:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090519000618.GB8860@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5E25AF06EFB9EA4A87C19BC98F5C8753035618F9@core-email.int.ascribe.com>
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 11:08:47PM +0100, Phil Betts wrote:
>Mark J. Reed wrote:
>> On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 9:17 AM, Dave Korn wrote:
>> > Lenik wrote:
>> >> On 2009-5-18 14:09, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> I think the main person you should be thanking isn't a guy.
>> >>>
>> >> Ok. Thank you gods.
>> >>
>> >
>> > ??Hey Corinna? ??Congrats! ??You just got a promotion!
>>
>> All praise to the great Corinna!
>
>Some thoughts from Terry Pratchett on the subject:
>
>"It's a god-eat-god world."
>
>"The trouble with being a god is that you've got no one to pray to."
>
>"Most gods find it hard to walk and think at the same time."
>
>"When you can flatten entire cities at a whim, a tendency towards
>quiet reflection and seeing-things-from-the-other-fellow's-point-
>of-view is seldom necessary."
>
>- Small Gods
I could never get into those books. It always seemed like the turtle
should have been standing on hippos. Too much suspension of disbelief.
cgf
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