From: Markus Kuhn <Markus.Kuhn@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Ada and UNICODE?
Date: 1998/05/20
Date: 1998-05-20T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3562A240.150F17BC@cl.cam.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 8790nxooru.fsf@yakisoba.forte-intl.com
Ronald Cole wrote:
[Unicode in Japan]
> Probably won't happen. The Japanese don't like the "han-unification"
> in Unicode or UTF-x.
Only those Japanese programmers who haven't really understood Unicode.
There are many popular misconceptions in the Japanese community about
Unicode. Check old comp.std.internat and comp.software.international
postings (via dejanews), where this subject is discussed in great
detail. After all, the editor of the ISO 10646-1 standard was Japanese.
Markus
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Markus G. Kuhn, Security Group, Computer Lab, Cambridge University, UK
email: mkuhn at acm.org, home page: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/>
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-05-15 0:00 Ada and UNICODE? William A Whitaker
1998-05-15 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-05-18 0:00 ` Joel VanLaven
1998-05-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-05-19 0:00 ` Ronald Cole
1998-05-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-05-24 0:00 ` Ronald Cole
1998-05-25 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-05-20 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn [this message]
1998-05-20 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-05-20 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1998-05-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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