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- From: ppan@nobeltech.se (Per Andersson)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: Dumb Americans (was INTERNATIONALIZATION: JAPAN, FAR EAST)
- Keywords: Han Kanji Katakana Hirugana ISO10646 Unicode Codepages
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.010216.2550@nobeltech.se>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 01:02:16 GMT
- References: <1992Dec18.212323.26882@netcom.com> <1992Dec19.083137.4400@fcom.cc.utah.edu> <2564@titccy.cc.titech.ac.jp>
- Organization: NobelTech AB
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- In article <2564@titccy.cc.titech.ac.jp> mohta@necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp (Masataka Ohta) writes:
- >
- >Do you know that Japan vote AGAINST ISO10646/Unicode, because it's not
- >good for Japanese?
- >
- >>So even if the Unicode standard ignores backward compatability
- >>with Japanese standards (and specific American and European standards),
- >>it better supports true internationalization.
- >
- >The reason of disapproval is not backward compatibility.
- >
- >The reason is that, with Unicode, we can't achieve internationalization.
-
- But, what has Unicode got to do with ISO-10646 ? Has the promised (very much
- needed IMHO) revision of Unicode arrived ? (1.1). Unicode is a 16bit character-
- set which I know did ugly things with asiatic languages. I thought 10646,
- which is a 32bit standard (by ISO !) did not, except for doing something
- the turks didn't like, don't remember what it was. Enlighten me !
-
- /Per
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