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- From: davef@cs.ubc.ca (David Finkelstein)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.misc
- Subject: Re: Help needed on 16-bit ASCII!
- Message-ID: <1go0b3INNr00@cobra.cs.ubc.ca>
- Date: 16 Dec 92 19:33:55 GMT
- References: <1gnp72INNet6@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
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- In article <1gnp72INNet6@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> Martin Vorbeck <vorbeck@ira.uka.de> writes:
- >Hi!
- >
- >Some time ago I heard that some new operating system (for PC?)
- >will be using a 16bit ASCII-like representation.
- >This way it will be possible to represent 65535 symbols,
- >i.e. nearly all characters used throughout the world.
- >
-
- What you're asking about sounds like Unicode. The Unicode standard
- was developed by the Unicode Consortium (now Unicode, Inc., a
- non-profit organization with open membership), which was comprised of
- people from a number of companies and universities too numerous to
- list.
-
- Unicode is a character encoding standard, and is not an operating
- system.
-
- If you're interested in the encoding tables, check out _The Unicode
- Standard: Worldwide Character Encoding, Version 1.0_ published by
- Addison-Wesley and written by the Unicode Consortium. Volume One
- (ISBN 0-201-56788-1) provides some intro material and code charts for
- all non-ideographic characters. Volume Two contains the code charts
- and cross-tabulations for the East Asian (Han) ideographic characters.
-
- --- Dave
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