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…
This reminds me of how "macros" work in Factor, in a way. You don't avoid manually creating the s-expression (though Scheme and Dylan have a nice mechanism for that), but there is a finer line between macros and regular…
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…
This reminds me of how "macros" work in Factor, in a way. You don't avoid manually creating the s-expression (though Scheme and Dylan have a nice mechanism for that), but there is a finer line between macros and regular…