#iso8859 — Public Fediverse posts

I found this reply that I made in 1984 to Dennis Ritchie in the net.followup newsgroup. I was at the time lobbying Sun to add 8-bit character set support to the firmware, but they wanted to hold out for a 16-bit system, like the as yet unnamed Unicode. There was eventually an interim solution but my memory of that is a bit foggy.

#Usenet #DennisRitchie #C #Pascal #emacs #VT100 #charactersets #ISO8859 #languages #Swedish #programming #unicode #SunMicrosystems #Värmland

I found this reply that I made in 1984 to Dennis Ritchie in the net.followup newsgroup. I was at the time lobbying Sun to add 8-bit character set support to the firmware, but they wanted to hold out for a 16-bit system, like the as yet unnamed Unicode. There was eventually an interim solution but my memory of that is a bit foggy.

#Usenet #DennisRitchie #C #Pascal #emacs #VT100 #charactersets #ISO8859 #languages #Swedish #programming #unicode #SunMicrosystems #Värmland

I found this reply that I made in 1984 to Dennis Ritchie in the net.followup newsgroup. I was at the time lobbying Sun to add 8-bit character set support to the firmware, but they wanted to hold out for a 16-bit system, like the as yet unnamed Unicode. There was eventually an interim solution but my memory of that is a bit foggy.

#Usenet #DennisRitchie #C #Pascal #emacs #VT100 #charactersets #ISO8859 #languages #Swedish #programming #unicode #SunMicrosystems #Värmland

I found this reply that I made in 1984 to Dennis Ritchie in the net.followup newsgroup. I was at the time lobbying Sun to add 8-bit character set support to the firmware, but they wanted to hold out for a 16-bit system, like the as yet unnamed Unicode. There was eventually an interim solution but my memory of that is a bit foggy.

#Usenet #DennisRitchie #C #Pascal #emacs #VT100 #charactersets #ISO8859 #languages #Swedish #programming #unicode #SunMicrosystems #Värmland

I found this reply that I made in 1984 to Dennis Ritchie in the net.followup newsgroup. I was at the time lobbying Sun to add 8-bit character set support to the firmware, but they wanted to hold out for a 16-bit system, like the as yet unnamed Unicode. There was eventually an interim solution but my memory of that is a bit foggy.

#Usenet #DennisRitchie #C #Pascal #emacs #VT100 #charactersets #ISO8859 #languages #Swedish #programming #unicode #SunMicrosystems #Värmland

@quinn @maxleibman Problem is that most #password prompts I know stuggle with anything beyond #ASCII - with some luck it'll be able to handle #ISO8859-15 with ÄÖÜ & ß as letters...

Also making #Emoji as passwords isn't really conducive since there is no good, useful and standardized way to enter these on a regular-ass keyboard.

Espechally with modifiers...
I.e. How do you type
"White + Black nonbinary couple with Asian nonbinary Child" on a keyboard?!?

@quinn @maxleibman Problem is that most #password prompts I know stuggle with anything beyond #ASCII - with some luck it'll be able to handle #ISO8859-15 with ÄÖÜ & ß as letters...

Also making #Emoji as passwords isn't really conducive since there is no good, useful and standardized way to enter these on a regular-ass keyboard.

Espechally with modifiers...
I.e. How do you type
"White + Black nonbinary couple with Asian nonbinary Child" on a keyboard?!?

@quinn @maxleibman Problem is that most #password prompts I know stuggle with anything beyond #ASCII - with some luck it'll be able to handle #ISO8859-15 with ÄÖÜ & ß as letters...

Also making #Emoji as passwords isn't really conducive since there is no good, useful and standardized way to enter these on a regular-ass keyboard.

Espechally with modifiers...
I.e. How do you type
"White + Black nonbinary couple with Asian nonbinary Child" on a keyboard?!?