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- From: khattra@cs.sfu.ca (Taj Khattra)
- Subject: Re: Help needed on 16-bit ASCII!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.220059.22715@cs.sfu.ca>
- Organization: CSS, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
- References: <1gnp72INNet6@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> <1go0b3INNr00@cobra.cs.ubc.ca>
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 22:00:59 GMT
- Lines: 47
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- In article <1go0b3INNr00@cobra.cs.ubc.ca> davef@cs.ubc.ca (David Finkelstein) writes:
- >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
- >--
- >---------------------------------------------------------------------
- >David Finkelstein |"Nothing comes out of the faucet
- >University of British Columbia | but strawberry jelly. I guess
- >davef@cs.ubc.ca | that's how rich millionaires live."
-
-
- Plan 9, the new operating system from Bell Labs, uses a 16-bit
- character set (I believe they used to use a variant of Unicode, but now
- have designed their own standard). There is a draft paper in the
- Plan 9 manuals set on research.att.com in /dist/plan9man/09utf.ps.Z.
- They will be publishing a revised paper on this in the January 1993
- Usenix Proceedings.
-
- Unfortunately, Plan 9 is only available to interested faculty members. :^(
- I wish there were some at SFU.
-
- --
- Taj Khattra
- khattra@cs.sfu.ca
-