Talk:Unicode

This looks like a direct rip from WikiPedia. Which is fine. But someone should weed out all the wikipedia hot links, no?

Adding some RL-specific content (like dev issues relating to use of unicode) would be nice too. -user:Shedletsky

Yessir. It was a rip from dictionary.com before it was a rip from wikipedia, so it needed to be changed. I wasn't too interested in rogue-ifying it at the time, so I left it as is. [[User:M|–M^T]] 02:24, 21 Sep 2005 (CEST)

This article is waaaaay to long, and waaaaay to unrelated to RL development to be left in it's current form. I think someone (Unicode-wise) should rip this article so it fits one page (or eventualy two). This is one of the fundamental laws of software engeenering -- never duplicate data - why copy from wikipedia if you can provide a link to it?? --Kisielewicz 05:19, 21 Sep 2005 (CEST)

Hehe. Yes, a link would work well. I pasted it in because I thought it would be easier for an editor to hack things out of it than write stuff up. [[User:M|–M^T]] 05:43, 21 Sep 2005 (CEST)

I've wiped it and written it from scratch with a Roguelike slant. I think we should avoid Wikipedia rips because it is duplicating information. We won't get the updates to the Wikipedia entry without having to handle merging any roguelike specific stuff properly. --JeffLait 22:26, 30 Sep 2005 (CEST)

Good point. And good rewrite. [[User:M|–M^T]] 06:33, 1 Oct 2005 (CEST)

I do not agree with the change about the size of the Unicode character set. The Unicode character set is 21bits no matter what broken encoding you are using. Among the official encodings, only UCS-2 is limited to the Basic Multilingual Plane. In all cases, it is plainly wrong to say that the Unicode character set is of varying size. --Stof 14:29, 2 Oct 2005 (CEST)