Kickstarter 2013 Revisited

[Richmond]

On 11/05/15 09:20, Geoff Canyon wrote:
> On Sun, May 10, 2015 at 4:09 PM, Mark Schonewille <
> m.schonewille at economy-x-talk.com> wrote:
>
>> Software should be unicode-compatible nowadays. This is what users and
>> developers expect. So, I would say 100%.
>>
> I think of myself as a developer. Everything I do these days is in-house,
> and has absolutely no need of unicode. The most recent thing I worked on
> for others is Navigator, and no one has ever asked me for a unicode version
> of that. The last app I worked on before that has been selling for the past
> 12 years or so, internationally, and no one has asked for a unicode version
> of that. Maybe I'm unique, but for my personal use cases, unicode is
> irrelevant, and given the opportunity costs and performance hits, a
> negative.
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>

This is why LiveCode needs to be modularized, so one can opt-in or not 
as the case may
be for what capabilities you require when it comes to hiving off a 
standalone.

Richmond.