Rob Church wrote:
On 08/06/06, Timwi timwi@gmx.net wrote:
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.
Of course, of course, I clean forgot. Because a quick proof of concept has to be PERFECT, doesn't it. Do excuse that little oversight.
It's not perfect yet. Get over it and give some feedback on the idea.
I concur. If the feature is useful at all, a test version would be useful even if it only worked in a Cyrillic variant of EBCDIC.
However, responding to the original poster here (I'm pretty sure Rob agrees), the English Wikipedia is rarely if ever the right place to test proof-of-concept code. That'd be like testing an experimental engine design on the Autobahn during rush hour.