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- From: mohta@necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp (Masataka Ohta)
- Newsgroups: comp.std.internat
- Subject: Re: The ultimate encoding
- Message-ID: <2677@titccy.cc.titech.ac.jp>
- Date: 10 Jan 93 03:41:46 GMT
- References: <2609@titccy.cc.titech.ac.jp> <1iav6tINNee2@life.ai.mit.edu> <1iddeeINN58g@rodan.UU.NET> <1993Jan9.220818.25882@enea.se>
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- Organization: Tokyo Institute of Technology
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- In article <1993Jan9.220818.25882@enea.se>
- sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog) writes:
-
- >Seriously, I disagrees with the statement above, and I think most
- >other people do. Putting the language into the coding gives more
- >problems than it solves. How deal with umpteen instances of the
- >same character because it is treated different language?
-
- If an application must neglect language difference, it can do so in the
- application.
-
- >But Unicode is not a partial solution for the Soviet Union in the 1980s.
-
- Agreed.
-
- >Unicode is a tool for complete solutions for the world in the 21st century.
-
- Disagreed. Perhaps, you are trying to force all the people in the world
- (or, at least Japanese) to use Latin alphabet only in the 21st century.
-
- But, we won't.
-
- Masataka Ohta
-