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- From: morley@camins.camosun.bc.ca
- Subject: Re: representing international languages
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.133724.1@camins.camosun.bc.ca>
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- References: <1992Nov12.192121.1474@qucis.queensu.ca> <By1uEB.9L1@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 21:37:24 GMT
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- In article <By1uEB.9L1@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu>, mgmam@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Mark A. Morrell) writes:
- > minard@qucis.queensu.ca (Brian Minard) writes:
- >>does anyone have any pointers to literature dealing with representing
- >>international languages.
- >>
- >>i've read about something called "Unicode", but can't remember where i saw it
- >>(and am not sure if that is the correct spelling of it, in any event).
- >>
- >>any information would be appreciated.
- >>
- >>thanks.
- >>
- >>brian
- >
- > No pointers, but Unicode (and I think you've got that right) is just
- > somebodys brain child for a new character set which would include all
- > the characters of all the different alphabets. I think they intend for
- > it to be 16-bit. They haven't gotten to the point with it where anybody
- > could use it yet...
- > --
- > --------------------------------------------------------------------
- > Mark A. Morrell Disclaimer: _I_ probably don't even believe it.
- > Literary Reference: The introduction to Cervantes' Don Quixote.
-
- Yes, UNICODE is a 16 bit character set that is supposed to be able to represent
- all characters in all alphabets of all languages, plus various other characters
- and symbols. Windows NT has support for programming with UNICODE and/or the
- normal ASCII character sets.
-
- MARK
- morley@camins.camosun.bc.ca
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