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- From: peterw@spaten.sharebase.com (Peter Wisnovsky)
- Newsgroups: comp.std.unix
- Subject: Re: POSIX update
- Date: 14 Aug 1992 13:31:36 -0700
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- Submitted-by: peterw@spaten.sharebase.com (Peter Wisnovsky)
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- In article <16ccqfINNrss@ftp.UU.NET> decot@cup.hp.com (Dave Decot) writes:
- >What kind of OS support do you envision is required? Generally, applications
- >should be written using libraries that are codeset independent anyway.
-
- At the meeting, more elaborate algorithms for collation sequences than
- those that exist in existing standards were discussed. Also, for doing
- string matching one needs to "normalize" a Unicode string, because
- there are a number of different representations of a string that
- displays the same, as well as some normalizations that affect display
- but may be desirable anyway (display Kanji numerals as Arabic ones,
- for instance). Also, if you need to calculate the display width of a
- string you would want to have an OS function to do it, since the
- rendering algorithms can be quite complicated.
-
- Peter Wisnovsky
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- Volume-Number: Volume 28, Number 96
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