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Re: There is a serious amount of character encoding conversion

• From: Norman Gray <norman@astro.gla.ac.uk>
• To: Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com>
• Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2012 16:31:01 +0000

Veering slightly off-topic....

On 2012 Dec 28, at 15:13, Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com> wrote:

> Well, I do remember that in the Computer Science Tripos at Cambridge around 1972 there was a open-ended question "Why is character coding so complicated?", and it hasn't become any simpler in the intervening 40 years.

That's a good course!

I sat part III of the Maths tripos and, arriving from outside the Cambridge system, it was open-ended questions like that, that scared the willies out of me.

All the best,

Norman


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Norman Gray  :  http://nxg.me.uk
SUPA School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, UK

• References:
  • There is a serious amount of character encoding conversionsoccurring inside our computers and on the Web
    • From: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@mitre.org>
  • Re: There is a serious amount of character encoding conversionsoccurring inside our computers and on the Web
    • From: Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com>