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Subject: Re: Please consider voting for my RFE
From: Jonathan Wilson <piercing_male@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2016 14:05:27 +0000
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On Thu, 2016-10-13 at 03:20 -0400, John Yeung wrote:

Joel Spolsky tends to do a good job of finding a balance between
accessibility and rigorousness, ruthlessly simplifying (even
oversimplifying) when it's more important to drive home the first
approximation than to be absolutely correct. I highly recommend his
primer on Unicode:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html

I had to giggle at the following paragraph:

"You probably think I'm going to talk about very old character sets
like EBCDIC here. Well, I won't. EBCDIC is not relevant to your life. We
don't have to go that far back in time."

Yeah, about that!

John Y.

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