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- From: veit@du9ds3.fb9dv.uni-duisburg.de (Holger Veit)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Dumb Americans (was INTERNATIONALIZATION: JAPAN, FAR EAST)
- Date: 21 Dec 92 08:31:27 GMT
- Organization: Uni-Duisburg FB9 Datenverarbeitung
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- Message-ID: <veit.724926687@du9ds3>
- References: <1gksolINNmkg@frigate.doc.ic.ac.uk> <mathias.724467456@sune.stacken.kth.se> <id.M2XV.VTA@ferranti.com> <1992Dec18.043033.14254@midway.uchicago.edu> <1992Dec18.212323.26882@netcom.com>
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- Keywords: Han Kanji Katakana Hirugana ISO10646 Unicode Codepages
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- In <1992Dec18.212323.26882@netcom.com> messina@netcom.com (Tony Porczyk) writes:
-
- >goer@kimbark.uchicago.edu (Richard L. Goerwitz) writes:
-
- >>>> Has anyone in this newsgroup ever heard of the Unicode/ISO10646
- >>>> (UCS) standard?
- >>>
- >>>You know, if 386BSD could be made to support NET-UTF (the Plan 9 version
- >>>of the 10646 standard) that would be a major advantage over commercial
- >>>Unices...
-
- >>One of the big criticism leveled at US Engineers is that they are either
- >>too dumb or lazy to build into their software support for non-Western
- >>scripts. Given that Linux originates in Europe, can we look forward to
- >>better support for Unicode and ISO10646? At least for "long" charac-
- >>ter definitions?
-
- >Yeah, that's probably why NT supports Unicode, it's those dumb US
- >Engineers... Could we lay off idiotic generalizations and stick to
- >technical aspects of the software? It's business that dictates what's
- >included in the package. If it makes economic sense, it will be there.
- >Most of the internationalization is done locally anyway, so it has
- >nothing to do with dumb engineers.
-
- >t.
-
- We probably have a chance to add multilingual support into 386bsd, this
- is towards what I'am aiming at. I intend to add an experimental part
- into the next version of the console driver codrv, with the work title
- "/dev/unicode" which is basically a virtual console (in graphics mode)
- which accepts and emits 16bit-Unicode characters. What I need is the
- complete mapping of the first BMP of ISO10646 DIS 1.2. I have it in
- parts only (the major european Latin mappings). But the BMP also includes
- Asian character sets, which I do not know. I could hack in the entire
- ISO10646 draft paper, but for some reasons I am reluctant to do this :-)
- What I like to have is both a computer readable version of the tables and
- a (X11R5-) bdf font with the proper mapping.
- If someone has these things, please send it to me (or at least point me to
- such code).
-
- Holger
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- |__| / University of Duisburg |
- | | / Dept. of Electr. Eng. | "Understand me correctly:
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