Text 987, 78 rader
Skriven 2005-10-17 07:13:41 av Dallas Hinton (1:153/715.0)
    Kommentar till text 986 av Aleksej R. Serdyukov (2:5020/24000)
Ärende: Please, check :-)
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Hi Aleksej -- on Oct 16 2005 at 23:12, you wrote:

ARS> Most of what you've suggested seems to be sense-changing...

I tried not to change the sense or intention....

DH>                                                            |Some
DH> people may

ARS> Hmm... If they DO, why "may"?

Not all people do, therefore we can't say it as if all people do.

ARS>>   require almost nothing to support it, it can be possible to use

DH>       (remove words "require almost nothing")

ARS> WHY?! I don't know any editor that requires _nothing_ to support
ARS> use of Unicode in Fidonet.

Well, then try "require little change"?

ARS>>   Constant character-length character sets those are either not

DH>                                                 |are those which are
DH> either not

ARS> Reread the table, please.

I'm not trying to change the table's meaning, but I wasn't clear what you
meant.

ARS>>   This suits for UTF-16 and UTF-32 definitions, but these
ARS>> encodings

DH>        |These encodings are fine for                |but cannot be
DH> used

ARS> It (the first part) is about the description, not the encodings.

Ah -- then that makes it even more important to use the actual noun rather than
the pronoun. I misunderstood even when I was trying hard to understand -- a
more casual reader would almost certainly go wrong! :-)

ARS>>   A kludge like ^AUCS may be used to define what features of
ARS>> Unicode   standard could be used in the message. It has no much
ARS>> weight with   UTF-8 and is left to the implementors.

DH> I don't understand your intention with the phrase "has no much
DH> weight". Do you mean "this kludge is of no importance" ??

ARS> Is of little importance. Hmm, the dictionary entry for "weight" is
ARS> about influence...
ARS> Actually, "is not of much use".

Then that's the phrase to use, I think. "No much" is a non-English
construction; we DO use the word "weight" to indicate "importance" but it's not
a common usage these days.

ARS> I wrote "have strictly limited lengths", is it ok?

Yes, that's fine.

ARS>>   The next level is surrogates to represent other 1048544.

DH>                       |contains (?)

ARS> "surrogates" are combining characters that allow the usage of more
ARS> than 65536 characters in a 16-bit encoding.

Ok -- then it should read something like: "the next level uses surrogates to
represent the other 1048544 ???" (Where ??? needs to be replaced by a noun.


Cheers... Dallas

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