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Re: new sigil
From:
Rob Kinyon
Date:
October 21, 2005 07:30
Subject:
Re: new sigil
Message ID:
70384420510210730l441279eam692fad7322224c57@mail.gmail.com
> > So, you are proposing that the Perl of the Unicode era be limited to
> > ASCII because a 15 year old editor cannot handle the charset? That's
> > like suggesting that operating systems should all be bootable from a
> > single floppy because not everyone has access to a CD drive.
>
> I saying that, since my up-to-date version of vi on my up-to-date OpenBSD
> can't type, much less even allow me to paste in, a Latin-1 character, this
> is an issue.
You're still using the base vi vs. vim?!? I didn't know people did
that when it wasn't 3am on Sunday when trying to fix a borked /etc ...
Huh!
Rob