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- From: goer@kimbark.uchicago.edu (Richard L. Goerwitz)
- Subject: Dumb Americans (was INTERNATIONALIZATION: JAPAN, FAR EAST)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.043033.14254@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Keywords: Han Kanji Katakana Hirugana ISO10646 Unicode Codepages
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- Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
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- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 04:30:33 GMT
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- >> Has anyone in this newsgroup ever heard of the Unicode/ISO10646
- >> (UCS) standard?
- >
- >You know, if 386BSD could be made to support NET-UTF (the Plan 9 version
- >of the 10646 standard) that would be a major advantage over commercial
- >Unices...
-
- One of the big criticism leveled at US Engineers is that they are either
- too dumb or lazy to build into their software support for non-Western
- scripts. Given that Linux originates in Europe, can we look forward to
- better support for Unicode and ISO10646? At least for "long" charac-
- ter definitions?
-
- Incidentally, although it's true that US Engineers often have really
- terrible language skills, this is due more to geographical isolation
- than to organic stupidity. There's just no need for multilingualism
- here in the states, the way there is in Europe, esp. in the low coun-
- tries and Scandinavia.
-
- --
-
- -Richard L. Goerwitz goer%midway@uchicago.bitnet
- goer@midway.uchicago.edu rutgers!oddjob!ellis!goer
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