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- From: uesu03@giac1.oscs.montana.edu (Lou Glassy)
- Subject: Re: representing international languages
- Message-ID: <1992Nov24.024203.5832@coe.montana.edu>
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- Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman MT
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- Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 02:42:03 GMT
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- In article <1erurpINN2ja@parlo.hal.COM> paul@hal.COM (Paul Sander) writes:
- !In article <1992Nov21.133724.1@camins.camosun.bc.ca>
- !morley@camins.camosun.bc.ca writes:
- !> [ about UNICODE ]
- !
- !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.
-
- I'll see what info I can rustle up about UNICODE's status. My understanding
- was that the ISO standardization effort (ISO-10646(?), a 32-bit character
- set) was merged with UNICODE (the 16-bit character set privately cooked up
- by the Unicode Consortium).
-
- BTW, Unicode's pretty neat, IMHO. It doesn't all of every possible character
- set, but seems to include enough (more than ASCII) to be useful for the
- non-latin-alphabet-using people on the planet.
-
- Lou.
-
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