Just to prove that BYTE readers can really sweat the details, in Dean Abramson's ``Globalization of Windows'' (November 1994), his explanation of the grouping of characters into scripts in Unicode contains a flaw. Abramson writes, ``...a B in Russian...shares the same glyph as the Latin B but belongs to the Cyrillic script.'' But the Cyrillic letter for V, not B, is shaped like a Latin B. Abramson could have selected the letters A, E, K, M, O, or T to make his point.
Doug Ewell
Placentia, CA
74273,1010@compuserve.com
Ouch! I studied Russian for two years and really do know the difference between the glyphs for the letters B and V. Too bad I didn't remember them when I was editing the article!--Russell Kay
Flexible C++
Matthew Wilson
My approach to software engineering is far more pragmatic than it
is
theoretical--and no language better exemplifies this than C++.
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