Interesting set of documents. Most of it isn't new to me, but I did find the chapter on character encodings interesting. Hope to see more of that.
"i18n and l10n are big topics in themselves. For example, they cover issues such as colours: while white means "purity" in Western cultures, it means "death" to the Chinese and "joy" to Egyptians. In this chapter we just look at issues of character handling."
While I generally make a concerted effort to supply decent unicode language support, I never really considered the part about colours and symbolism differences and how they may affect potential customers. This is probably something I should be investigating further.
Very interesting set of docs. However, I think the language misses in two areas that have shown to be pain points:
* Blocking resolvers. They are a royal pain in an interactive GUI app. But I guess here the language goes with what the OS provides.
* The app developers usually do not care about the dirty underwear of the address families, and addresses, in general, when all they want is to use the reliable stream to a host of their choice. Connecting a socket to a host should be one line, not a half page of alphabet soup.
Also: there's a mention of SCTP. Great! Finally the world is not just bipolar UDP-TCP, at least in the book. But how to use it from the language API ? Raw socket only has an example for ICMP.
Would have been great to see an example for SCTP. Or DCCP, for that matter.
"i18n and l10n are big topics in themselves. For example, they cover issues such as colours: while white means "purity" in Western cultures, it means "death" to the Chinese and "joy" to Egyptians. In this chapter we just look at issues of character handling."
While I generally make a concerted effort to supply decent unicode language support, I never really considered the part about colours and symbolism differences and how they may affect potential customers. This is probably something I should be investigating further.