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- From: paul@hal.COM (Paul Sander)
- Newsgroups: comp.programming
- Subject: Re: representing international languages
- Summary: Doesn't do everything, but might be an ISO standard
- Message-ID: <1erurpINN2ja@parlo.hal.COM>
- Date: 24 Nov 92 01:00:41 GMT
- References: <1992Nov12.192121.1474@qucis.queensu.ca> <By1uEB.9L1@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu> <1992Nov21.133724.1@camins.camosun.bc.ca>
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- In article <1992Nov21.133724.1@camins.camosun.bc.ca>
- morley@camins.camosun.bc.ca writes:
- >
- >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.
- >
-
- Slight clarification: UNICODE includes all of the alphabet characters for
- those languages that have alphabets. It does not contain all of the Kanjii
- or Chinese characters, and probably omits lots of others (though it does
- include some of the more common ones).
-
- Last I heard, the ISO was close to publishing a standard. This was a few
- months ago. If anyone has any more recent news, please post. The ISO
- publication number and an address would be most appreciated.
-
- Many thanks in advance!
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