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Smjörið er brætt og hveitið smátt og smátt hrært út í það, þangað til það er gengið upp í smjörið.

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Re: Smjörið er brætt og hveitið smátt og smátt hrært út í það, þangað til það er gengið upp í smjörið.

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Good guess.

As an Icelander, I must surely ask what pushed you to use Icelandic as an example. :)

People love thorn. Anglos used to have it and now that it's gone, they miss it.

Re: Smjörið er brætt og hveitið smátt og smátt hrært út í það, þangað til það er gengið upp í smjörið.

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Well, not quite. I gave Patrick an early version of the code, a couple weeks before Arc was released, and he immediately sent me this fix. I just didn't get around to incorporating it till now. There's a difference between things I don't care about, and things I'm actively against. I don't care about character sets and css, so those things will no doubt gradually get better. Classic static typing, however, I think is…

I don't understand why CSS or HTML are being mentioned during the design of Arc. These seem like library issues and your announcement of Arc was spoiled IMHO by the "rant" about HTML and tables. This is only made worse by the Arc Challenge which seems to be more about the design of libraries for HTML/HTTP etc. than the language. What am I missing?

I doubt anyone would have commented on the tables thing if pg hadn't made a big deal out of it.

Re: Smjörið er brætt og hveitið smátt og smátt hrært út í það, þangað til það er gengið upp í smjörið.

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What needed to be changed? I am no character encoding guru but I thought that treating strings as opaque octet sequences was good enough to "support" UTF-8. i.e. Unless you actively break it, it should work by default.

Re: Smjörið er brætt og hveitið smátt og smátt hrært út í það, þangað til það er gengið upp í smjörið.

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So. A note to all the "unicode makes this unusable" people - Apparently, while you were complaining, someone else was solving.

I think the complaints were more about how pg was originally saying that he intended to never support Unicode. That said, people should realize that UTF-8 encoding/decoding is the zeroth step to internationalization with Unicode.

pg didn't say that. people just made it up.

Re: Smjörið er brætt og hveitið smátt og smátt hrært út í það, þangað til það er gengið upp í smjörið.

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I don't understand why CSS or HTML are being mentioned during the design of Arc. These seem like library issues and your announcement of Arc was spoiled IMHO by the "rant" about HTML and tables. This is only made worse by the Arc Challenge which seems to be more about the design of libraries for HTML/HTTP etc. than the language. What am I missing?

I doubt anyone would have commented on the tables thing if pg hadn't made a big deal out of it.

people did view source on hacker news, saw tables, and brought it up. pg didn't make a big deal out of it first.

Re: Smjörið er brætt og hveitið smátt og smátt hrært út í það, þangað til það er gengið upp í smjörið.

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I doubt anyone would have commented on the tables thing if pg hadn't made a big deal out of it.

people did view source on hacker news, saw tables, and brought it up. pg didn't make a big deal out of it first.

Bringing it up about the website is a separate issue from bringing it up about the language.
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