Gerard Meijssen wrote:
Hoi,
This small Unicode issue is a show stopper. When software is suggested
that only works on Latin script, you do not appreciate the amount of
work that is done in other scripts using the MediaWiki software.
"You do not appreciate" - rather a confrontational tone, there. Who
are we to assume that someone else doesn't appreciate the amount of
effort put in elsewhere? It might be correct, but then again, there
might be no specific bias against it.
It is already confrontational of a programmer to pretend the whole world
could make do with Latin-1. It is one of the most devastating and
accordingly infuriating assumptions that still prevails despite the fact
that Unicode is decades old. We're in the 21st century; it is no longer
appropriate to even start programming anything where any user-visible
text is restricted to Latin-1 or any other 8-bit charset.
Unicode is not a "feature". Unicode is an implementation detail. Latin-1
is a bug.
Timwi