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[Daniel Stone <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 09:55:19AM -0800, bugzilla-daemon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Guys, since I get X for free, I’m not expecting anything, and think it’s really
> nice of you to do this work. But I’m not talking about implementing some
> colorful clickables or display bling. I’m talking about one of the most basic
> features. So basic it has its own ISO standard. And also about 50 lines of
> code. Max.

I look forward to your 50-line patch then.

> What I meant to say is, that if it were my code, and yes I am a professional
> programmer for 20 years now, I would be ashamed of overlooking something like
> this. It’s a thing of pride. Maybe because I see it as more fundamental than
> you.

Well, either we are rubbish programmers with no pride, or are simply too
busy with the other 2.532 million (I just checked) lines of code that X
has.

> I would also love to submit a patch. If the thing weren’t written in that
> horrible horrible excuse of a programming language called C. I know lots of
> languages, including Haskell (my favorite and main languages), but I have no
> intention in torturing myself with C-like languages.

So what you're saying is that you're not going to help, but instead sit
here banging on about pride and how Windows 2000 did it and it's really
easy.  Helpful!

(Oh, and Windows 2000 may have had Ctrl+Shift+[codepoint] for generating
 Unicode for ten years now, but people have been unconstructive assholes
 on the internet for at least 20 years now.  So you're even further
 behind than we are.)

Sorry to everyone else Cc'ed ...

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  Need way to insert arbitrary unicode characters in Kubuntu

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