On page 49, you say:

"Code that assumes that ASCII is good enough for writing English properly is stupid, shortsighted, illiterate, broken, evil, and wrong."

I have a counter proposal.

Anyone who condemns the collected published works of: Philip Larkin George Orwell William Golding Ted Hughes Doris Lessing J. R. R. Tolkien V. S. Naipaul Muriel Spark Kingsley Amis Angela Carter C. S. Lewis Iris Murdoch Salman Rushdie Ian Fleming Jan Morris Roald Dahl Anthony Burgess Mervyn Peake Martin Amis Anthony Powell Alan Sillitoe John Le Carré Penelope Fitzgerald Philippa Pearce Barbara Pym Beryl Bainbridge J. G. Ballard Alan Garner Alasdair Gray John Fowles Derek Walcott Kazuo Ishiguro Anita Brookner A. S. Byatt Ian McEwan Geoffrey Hill Hanif Kureishi Iain Banks George Mackay Brown A. J. P. Taylor Isaiah Berlin J. K. Rowling Philip Pullman Julian Barnes Colin Thubron Bruce Chatwin Alice Oswald Benjamin Zephaniah Rosemary Sutcliff Michael Moorcock

(and that's just the last 70 years), as "stupid, short-sighted, illiterate, broken, evil, and wrong", for the sake of making a puerile argument in favour of their latest, greatest toy -- is a self-absorbed, blinkered, revisionist ....

Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error.
"Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority".
In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice.

In reply to Re: OSCON Perl Unicode Slides by BrowserUk
in thread OSCON Perl Unicode Slides by tchrist

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