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Received: by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Fri, 27 Jan 1995 05:36:27 MST
To: icon-group-l@cs.arizona.edu
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 1995 13:18:47 MST
From: keving@primenet.com (Kevin Goldstein)
Message-Id: <keving.80.00272B75@primenet.com>
Organization: Primenet
Sender: icon-group-request@cs.arizona.edu
References: <3g4tkn$iei@jabba.cybernetics.net>
Subject: Re: Double-Byre Characters or Unicode?
Errors-To: icon-group-errors@cs.arizona.edu
In article <3g4tkn$iei@jabba.cybernetics.net> brady@cybernetics.net (Don Brady) writes:
>From: brady@cybernetics.net (Don Brady)
>Subject: Double-Byre Characters or Unicode?
>Date: 25 Jan 1995 07:12:23 GMT
>Is there any move to support double-byte character sets
>and Unicode? These are needed to support Japanese and
>othr labuages with large numbers of characters.
I agree on the need for this. While I personally don't need Unicode (at least
not yet), I think that any language with built-in support for character types
that expects to be around for the long haul is going to have to have support
for Unicode, and the sooner the better. (There's been a lot of talk in the
Perl group lately about Unicode support.)
On another subject, why is this newsgroup so quiet? I know there's a
newsletter, but it seems to me that a little more activity here might draw in
more new users.
Just a thought.
-Kevin