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- From: boyd@prl.dec.com (Boyd Roberts)
- Subject: Re: Dumb Americans (was INTERNATIONALIZATION: JAPAN, FAR EAST)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.203101.5447@prl.dec.com>
- Keywords: Han Kanji Katakana Hirugana ISO10646 Unicode Codepages
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- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation - Paris Research Laboratory
- References: <1992Dec30.061759.8690@fcom.cc.utah.edu> <1hu9v5INNbp1@rodan.UU.NET> <8490@charon.cwi.nl> <1992Dec31.171450.1513@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 20:31:01 GMT
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- There are two problems:
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- 1. Getting an encoding of the characters.
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- 2. Getting local conventions right.
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- Problem 2 is hard. Problem 1 should not address problem 2.
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- Divide and conquer.
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- Plan 9 utf solves Problem 1.
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- Boyd Roberts boyd@prl.dec.com
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- ``When the going gets wierd, the weird turn pro...''
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