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- From: glenn@wheat-chex.ai.mit.edu (Glenn A. Adams)
- Newsgroups: comp.std.internat
- Subject: Re: Dumb Americans (was INTERNATIONALIZATION: JAPAN, FAR EAST)
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 01:53:02 GMT
- Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
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- References: <2675@titccy.cc.titech.ac.jp> <1ippo5INN7b3@life.ai.mit.edu> <2771@titccy.cc.titech.ac.jp>
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- Keywords: Unicode ISO10646 CharacterEncoding
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- In article <2771@titccy.cc.titech.ac.jp> mohta@necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp (Masataka Ohta) writes:
- >Dependence on global state is much worse than variable length encoding.
- >You can't even concatinate files.
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- For once, we strongly agree: locales are brain damaged as far as
- determining character encoding or language of text is concerned.
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- Glenn Adams
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