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Subject: Re: SysVinit audit: mesg and wall
From: Benjamin Smee (ben.smeeone.net.au)
Date: Wed Aug 30 2000 - 19:54:24 CDT

Heya,

Aidan Kehoe wrote:
>
> : This fundamentally is because the spray at another tty approach is
> : architecturally flawed. Let alone what happens when everyone is using X
> : instead.
>
> No, the spray-at-another-tty approach seems fairly sound to me. It's
> just the whole assumption that everyone speaks American English that's
> the architectural flaw. Maybe we should have cloned Plan 9 instead :)

Wont all these kind of problems be solved when the new Unicode comes
out? Native support of ALL the alphabets should stop these type of
things being an issue. The only problem is rewriting all the code place
to take advantage of it :)

regards, 

-- 
Benjamin Smee
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