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Tim Bray scripsit:
> I've looked at ICU a couple of times and been horrified by the sheer
> volume and the learning curve, and both times decided it was quicker and
> safer to code up whatever-it-was myself.
That works if you have the utmost confidence in your personal ability to
get it right. For most programmers, that's a dangerous attitude to take
around the guts of Unicode.
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Knowledge studies others / Wisdom is self-known; John Cowan
Muscle masters brothers / Self-mastery is bone; jcowan@reutershealth.com
Content need never borrow / Ambition wanders blind; www.ccil.org/~cowan
Vitality cleaves to the marrow / Leaving death behind. --Tao 33 (Bynner)
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