From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Sat, 17 Jan 2026 18:52:52 GMT, Dorothy J Heydt wrote:   
      
   > On Sat, 17 Jan 2026 08:55:53 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
   >   
   >> Depending solely on the text encoding for word sorting is pretty   
   >> naïve, don’t you think.   
   >   
   > Perhaps. But think back to at least the early 1970s and remember   
   > that as far as the computer is concerned, everything is just a   
   > sequence of bits.   
      
   So what? It still wasn’t a good idea back then.   
      
   Technology is here to serve the needs of us humans, we are not here to   
   serve the needs of technology.   
      
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