Rob Church wrote:
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