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- Submitted-by: rja7m@chaos.cs.Virginia.EDU (Ran Atkinson)
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- While I am fond of Vietnamese, I'd like to suggest that it not be
- used in future examples of internationalisation for several reasons
- including the lack of a defined character set standard for Vietnamese.
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- A number of people, including me, were trying to come up with a reasonable
- modification of the ISO 8859/1 standard and didn't because there are
- too many combinations of diacriticals and vowels for each combination
- to have its own 8-bit representation. The folks behind UNISTD and
- the ISO 32-bit character set proposal are working with Vietnamese in
- mind, so we might eventually have a standard, but for now we don't.
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- Also, I think the example was erroneous. I think that the example
- was trying to say: "chao` ca'c o^ng" (where the diacriticals belong
- above the vowels not after them and there is no real space in the place
- where the diacritical appears above). Also, I think that the above
- means "Hello everyone" more nearly than "Hello World" (though its early
- in the day and I might well not have the nearest translation either :-)
-
- As I say, It was really nice to see Vietnamese as the example, but I think
- that for this newsgroup it would be more accessible to use a different
- language next time...
-
- Ran
- randall@Virginia.EDU
-
- P.S.
- Persons interested in Vietnamese discussions should move their postings to
- soc.culture.vietnamese from comp.std.unix .
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- Volume-Number: Volume 21, Number 202
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