From: Mike Marchywka <marchywka@hotmail.com>
To: <cygwin-talk@cygwin.com>
Subject: RE: [RFC] Refresh iswblank and iswspace (was Re: Update wctype functions to Unicode 5.2?)
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:54:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BLU113-W19C7A7C07639CBA7CE7898BE4A0@phx.gbl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B79A6B1.3000508@gmail.com>
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> Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:55:29 +0000
> From:
> To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: [RFC] Refresh iswblank and iswspace (was Re: Update wctype functions to Unicode 5.2?)
>
> On 15/02/2010 09:35, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> On Feb 14 18:21, Andy Koppe wrote:
>>>>> For a start, here are patches to iswblank and iswspace to add the missing
>>>>> characters U+180e (MONGOLIAN VOWEL SEPARATOR),
>>>> The sons of the mighty Chinggis do not "separate" their vowels! They sweep
>>>> down in a mighty horde from the steppe on horseback and cleave them asunder
>>>> with their swords!
>>> Yeah, shouldn't that be MONGOLIAN BOWEL SEPARATOR?
>>
>> I'm concerned. Do you think that's a bug in Unicode 5.2? Should we
>> report this upstream?
>
> We don't "report" to upstream! We pillage and burn and disembowel our way
> across Europe to upstream, leaving a trail of grieving orphans and widows in
> our wake!
>
anything more than 7 bits/ char, 8th can be used for partiy, does this to you.
Imagine what would happen to humanity with fonts being intermingled with
characters....
> cheers,
> DaveK
>
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[not found] ` <20100213143809.GM5683@calimero.vinschen.de>
2010-02-14 17:25 ` Dave Korn
2010-02-14 18:21 ` Andy Koppe
2010-02-15 9:35 ` Corinna Vinschen
2010-02-15 19:38 ` Dave Korn
2010-02-15 20:12 ` Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
2010-02-15 20:54 ` Mike Marchywka [this message]
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