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- From: peterw@spaten.sharebase.com (Peter Wisnovsky)
- Newsgroups: comp.std.unix
- Subject: Re: POSIX update
- Date: 12 Aug 1992 11:06:35 -0400
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- Sender: rsalz@ftp.UU.NET
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- Summary: Where goes posix in the light of Unicode?
- Keywords: posix, unicode, iso10646, microsoft windows nt
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- Submitted-by: peterw@spaten.sharebase.com (Peter Wisnovsky)
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- In article <166v0lINNpj8@ftp.UU.NET> mckee@imail.compaq.com (George McKee) writes:
- >Submitted-by: mckee@claude.se.hou.compaq.com (George McKee)
- >
- >Not to mention the reports that Microsoft NT will be POSIX compliant when
- >it appears.
-
- Not really in terms of character set support. My understanding is that
- they are going to fix wchar_t at 16 bits to store Unicode data, which
- strictly speaking is non-conformant. This raises the general issue
- of how Unix standards organizations are going to react to Unicode. It seems
- pretty clear that many major companies are moving in the direction of
- Unicode. However, the absence of AT&T from the last Unicode implementors
- workshop bodes ill for inclusion of Unicode in SVR5 anytime soon.
-
- Unfortunately there seems to be no satisfactory way to imbed Unicode
- within the EUC framework used in AT&T's MNLS system, which I understand
- is their implementation of Posix international language support.
-
- I'd love to hear differently, since I envision having to support Unicode
- some day, but am loath to do it without substantial support from the OS.
-
- Peter Wisnovsky
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