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David Huang (Lin-Shung Huang)
This is a draft proposal for changes to the POSIX specification for environment variables (including both the various C library functions for access to environment variables, and the underlying data structure). The goal is to make it possible for multithreaded programs to modify the environment (the set of environment variables, with their values) safely.
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UTF-8 is decent and all but it contains some design errors, partly because its original designers just messed up, and partly because of ISO and Unicode Consortium internal politics. We’re probably going to be using it forever so it would be good to correct these design errors before they get any more entrenched than they already have.
bunnie's blog
David Huang (Lin-Shung Huang)