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Eire is Part of the USA According to US Court

posted by LaminatorX on Monday August 04 2014, @12:09PM   Printer-friendly
from the Erin-go-Here dept.

An anonymous coward writes:

Microsoft has been ordered to provide documents stored in an Ireland data centre to the US government. http://www.datacenterdynamics.com/focus/archive/2014/08/microsoft-ordered-hand-over-dublin-data. Will this hinder US companies offering cloud services?

 
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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by dublet on Monday August 04 2014, @02:05PM

    by dublet (2994) on Monday August 04 2014, @02:05PM (#77207)
    Éire (accent over the E) is not the same as Eire. You can just call it the Republic of Ireland. Or Ireland, as most of the Irish do and they would prefer you to instead of using the wrong letters in their native tongue's name [wikipedia.org]. Though the island of Ireland isn't the same as the Republic of Ireland.

    The spelling Eire is generally deplored by Irish-speakers as worse than a misspelling, because eire is a separate word, meaning "a burden, load or encumbrance".[10][11] [..] in 1996 a British journalist described Eire as "now an oddity rarely used, an out-of-date reference".[12]

    Can we get Unicode support already?

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  • (Score: 1) by Buck Feta on Monday August 04 2014, @02:25PM

    by Buck Feta (958) on Monday August 04 2014, @02:25PM (#77214) Journal

    I don't know why they call it Ireland in the first place. I was there years ago and found very little ire.

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  • (Score: 2) by Nerdfest on Monday August 04 2014, @02:27PM

    by Nerdfest (80) on Monday August 04 2014, @02:27PM (#77216)

    Söylent supports Unicode.

    • (Score: 2) by Nerdfest on Monday August 04 2014, @02:35PM

      by Nerdfest (80) on Monday August 04 2014, @02:35PM (#77219)
      Figured that would happen. There appear to be a couple of ways of doing it. You can't just paste it in from a character map or use the keyboard entry approach. Using &#xD6 does not work either. Anyone know the proper technique?

      • (Score: 2) by drussell on Monday August 04 2014, @03:25PM

        by drussell (2678) on Monday August 04 2014, @03:25PM (#77233) Journal

        IIRC, you can use standard the html 'entity' or whatever they call it, like:

        π should give you a pi: π
        π (in hex) should work also: π

        • (Score: 2) by Nerdfest on Monday August 04 2014, @04:17PM

          by Nerdfest (80) on Monday August 04 2014, @04:17PM (#77259)

          Thanks. Silly me, I was missing the semi-colon.

      • (Score: 4, Informative) by martyb on Monday August 04 2014, @03:27PM

        by martyb (76) Subscriber Badge on Monday August 04 2014, @03:27PM (#77234) Journal

        Nerdfest wrote:

        Figured that would happen. There appear to be a couple of ways of doing it. You can't just paste it in from a character map or use the keyboard entry approach. Using &#xD6 does not work either. Anyone know the proper technique?

        Try using &#nnnn; e.g.: Öire. The current version of the slash code has many known problems with Unicode / UTF-8.

        Unicode support, well technically UTF-8, is under development and a [partial(*)] implementation is scheduled for release during the next site update (which should be any day now). Kudos to: The Mighty Buzzard [soylentnews.org] who did the implementation; I only helped with testing.

        Unicode [wikipedia.org]:

        Unicode is a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems. Developed in conjunction with the Universal Character Set standard and published in book form as The Unicode Standard, the latest version of Unicode contains a repertoire of more than 110,000 characters covering 100 scripts and various symbols. The standard consists of a set of code charts for visual reference, an encoding method and set of standard character encodings, a set of reference data computer files, and a number of related items, such as character properties, rules for normalization, decomposition, collation, rendering, and bidirectional display order (for the correct display of text containing both right-to-left scripts, such as Arabic and Hebrew, and left-to-right scripts).[1] As of June 2014, the most recent version is Unicode 7.0. The standard is maintained by the Unicode Consortium.

        UTF-8 [wikipedia.org]:

        UTF-8 (UCS Transformation Format—8-bit) is a variable-width encoding that can represent every character in the Unicode character set. It was designed for backward compatibility with ASCII and to avoid the complications of endianness and byte order marks in UTF-16 and UTF-32.

        You can play around with the current development implementation on our development server at: http://dev.soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org]

        (*) Partial implementation because the database in which all of the comments and stories reside needs to be updated to support the entire UTF-8 scheme. At the moment, support exists for Unicode characters 0x00-0xFF. When the database has been updated, we will have full support.

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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 04 2014, @03:47PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 04 2014, @03:47PM (#77242)

        Éire

        Courtesy of GNOME Character Map

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 04 2014, @07:22PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 04 2014, @07:22PM (#77315)

    > Éire (accent over the E) is not the same as Eire.

    Irie man, [urbandictionary.com] no worries!