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- From: mohta@necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp (Masataka Ohta)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: Dumb Americans (was INTERNATIONALIZATION: JAPAN, FAR EAST)
- Keywords: Han Kanji Katakana Hirugana ISO10646 Unicode Codepages
- Message-ID: <2614@titccy.cc.titech.ac.jp>
- Date: 4 Jan 93 18:16:41 GMT
- References: <1992Dec18.212323.26882@netcom.com> <1992Dec19.083137.4400@fcom.cc.utah.edu> <2564@titccy.cc.titech.ac.jp> <1992Dec30.010216.2550@nobeltech.se>
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- Organization: Tokyo Institute of Technology
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- In article <1992Dec30.010216.2550@nobeltech.se>
- ppan@nobeltech.se (Per Andersson) writes:
-
- >>The reason is that, with Unicode, we can't achieve internationalization.
- >
- >But, what has Unicode got to do with ISO-10646 ? Has the promised (very much
- >needed IMHO) revision of Unicode arrived ? (1.1). Unicode is a 16bit character-
- >set which I know did ugly things with asiatic languages. I thought 10646,
- >which is a 32bit standard (by ISO !) did not, except for doing something
- >the turks didn't like, don't remember what it was. Enlighten me !
-
- Once upon a time, DIS 10646 was a 32 bit usable standard.
-
- Later, it was transformed into unusable DIS 10646-1.2, an equivalent of
- Unicode.
-
- While DIS 10646-1.2 theoretically allows for 31 bit representation, it's
- only theoretically.
-
- Masataka Ohta
-