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- From: bygg@sunet.se (Johnny Eriksson)
- Newsgroups: comp.std.internat
- Subject: Re: Dumb Americans (was INTERNATIONALIZATION: JAPAN, FAR EAST)
- Keywords: Han Kanji Katakana Hirugana ISO10646 Unicode Codepages
- Message-ID: <C0A8yx.LwF@sunic.sunet.se>
- Date: 3 Jan 93 14:44:56 GMT
- References: <1i2ommINN5uh@rodan.UU.NET> <VyqRwB2w165w@blues.kk.sub.org>
- Sender: bygg@sunic.sunet.se (Johnny Eriksson)
- Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
- Lines: 19
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- In article <VyqRwB2w165w@blues.kk.sub.org> kosta@blues.kk.sub.org (Kosta Kostis) writes:
- >avg@rodan.UU.NET (Vadim Antonov) writes:
-
- [Much material omitted]
-
- >> It is also inadequate for cyrillic-based languages (slavic and
- >> others; not all slavic languages use cyrillic and most of
- >> Cyrillic languages aren't slavic!)
- >
- >I believe you, but what's the problem with UniCode here?
- >Maybe you should tell me more about KOI-8 (by email, please).
-
- Why not tell everyone about KOI-8 and the other cyrillic coding methods,
- code tables, design principles, whatever. There may be more than one
- of us that are interested in that information.
-
- Vadim, please?
-
- --Johnny
-