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- From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C)
- Subject: Re: INTERNATIONALIZATION: JAPAN, FAR EAST
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.063129.8882@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
- Keywords: Han Kanji Katakana Hirugana ISO10646 Unicode Codepages
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- Organization: Weber State University (Ogden, UT)
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- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 92 06:31:29 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec30.010715.2731@nobeltech.se> ppan@nobeltech.se (Per Andersson) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec28.065540.24637@fcom.cc.utah.edu> terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes:
- >>I would also like to see this (although I believe the 32 bit standard in
- >>question is Unicode-32).
- >>
- >>I wonder at the transcribability of such things as Ancient Egyptian
- >>Heiroglyphics, where it seems the art work is intimately involved with the
- >>meaning; I can't argue, however, that Aramaeic and other dead written
- >>languages should probably be represented. This was the justification for
- >>moving to 32 bits suggested in the Unicode Volume II. One wonders at the
- >>amount of memory necessary to store such a font.
- >
- >Why, oh, why do we have to have another new unicode, invented by some
- >stubborn US companies, when the whole world at last has agreed on
- >ISO-10646 ? Not Invented Here ?
-
- I believe you are probably unfamiliar with the ISO-10646 draft standard,
- which is a superset of the Unicode (Unicode-16) standard; otherwise, it is
- unlikely that you would be confused as to whether or not it were "another
- new unicode, invented by some stubborn US companies". Your attribution of
- ISO work to a few US companies is flattering to those of us in the US,
- but incorrect, as ISO stands for "International Standards Organization"
- and does not consist solely of representatives of US companies.
-
- The discussion of a Unicode-32 standard has already taken place, and is
- already stated to be a superset of the Unicode-16 standard, per its
- mention in Volume II of the published Unicode standard. It is likely
- (but by no means a foregone conclusion) that the Unicode-32 will either
- be a superset of or codify vast portions of the ISO-10646 draft standard.
-
- I doubt that "stubborn US companies" have large markets in Ancient
- Egyptian Heiroglyphics or Aramaeic which they so unwilling to give up
- as to attempt to cram a new standard down your throat. 8-0.
-
-
- Terry Lambert
- terry@icarus.weber.edu
- terry_lambert@novell.com
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- or previous employers.
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