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Croatian string size change

Coyote,

Thanks for the detailed clarification. I cannot remember where I found the ref to Croatian string size changing but it was obviously wrong. My bad

Thanks again,
Sean

Hans, "I'm assuming the

Hans,

"I'm assuming the author is actually aware that unicode doesn't govern all aspects of localization -- maybe that's the point of the article..."

Exactly so. The core point of the article is that many who say "just use Unicode" do not know that, which is unfortunate.

regards,
Sean

Lucian, I suspect that you

Lucian,

I suspect that you are right. Nature/fate/accident has found a way to allow us to deal with higher levels of complexity. I'd love to have been in a position to ask Herbert Simon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Simon) his opinion. I remember reading a book of his - The architecture of complexity which argues for hierarchy being the timeless route to complexity management.
The internet is fascinating in that the one thing is most certainly is *not*, is hierarchical!

Sean

Simon, Thanks for the

Simon,

Thanks for the pointer. Reminds me of the "sticky bit" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sticky_bit).

Sean

Anonymous, Mea culpa. Both

Anonymous,

Mea culpa. Both fixes will be applied.

Sean