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- From: ketil@edb.tih.no (Ketil Albertsen,TIH)
- Subject: Re: European characters (was 8-bit news)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.122553.4823W@lumina.edb.tih.no>
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- In article <2261@blue.cis.pitt.edu>, wbdst+@pitt.edu (William B Dwinnell)
- writes:
-
- >Whatever happened to Unicode?
-
- Well and alive, isn't it? I don't have the funds to order any ISO standards
- at the time (the last one cost me approx $10/page!), but as far as I have
- read in various magazines, IS 10646 is accepted now. Well, that might have
- been as a DIS, not an IS, but from DIS to IS there should be no technical
- changes. 10646/1 is supposedly a 32-bit identification scheme intended to
- cover just about any printable symbol in the world, while 10646/2, or Unicode,
- is a subset using 16 bit codes for text symbols (characters or Asian-
- style symbols). They haven't allocated all 65536 codes by far yet; large
- fractions of the table are white spots, but I am quite happy with that...
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