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- From: mohta@necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp (Masataka Ohta)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: Dumb Americans (was INTERNATIONALIZATION: JAPAN, FAR EAST)
- Message-ID: <2565@titccy.cc.titech.ac.jp>
- Date: 27 Dec 92 19:26:11 GMT
- References: <1992Dec18.235809.15484@midway.uchicago.edu> <agp22+#@rpi.edu> <1gvpt0INN8s0@hrd769.brooks.af.mil> <BzIwvu.3BE@demon.co.uk> <CARLTON.92Dec21163548@scws8.harvard.edu>
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- In article <CARLTON.92Dec21163548@scws8.harvard.edu>
- carlton@scws8.harvard.edu (david carlton) writes:
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- >I certainly wouldn't call it an insignificantly larger market. Huge
- >numbers of people use Chinese, Japanese, and other languages whose
- >scripts don't fit in 8 bits, after all.
-
- True. But, it should be noted that they don't fit even in 16 bits.
-
- Even character sets used in a single language can not be represented
- with 16 bits.
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- While not all characters are used in modern Japanese, Taiwan already have
- a character encoding standard which contains more than 65536 Han
- characters.
-
- >Whether it is worth the
- >effort to you is another matter, though;
-
- Sure. But if you do something, do it throughly, so that you don't have
- to do it twice.
-
- Masataka Ohta
-