From: Ronald Cole <ronald@yakisoba.forte-intl.com>
Subject: Re: Ada and UNICODE?
Date: 1998/05/19
Date: 1998-05-19T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8790nxooru.fsf@yakisoba.forte-intl.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dewar.895560795@merv
dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:
> So far we have not found any of our Japanese or Chinese users using
> UTF-8. There are already plenty of operating systems that fully
> support Japanese and Chinese characters (I have sitting on my shelf
> the Japanese version of windows). THe most common coding methods
> we have run into in Japan are EUC and SHift-JIS, and in China, the
> modified upper bit approach is used (80h bit signals wide character).
>
> It sure would be nice if UTF-8 would become a standard, supporting
> umpteen different coding methods for wide character is a pain!
Probably won't happen. The Japanese don't like the "han-unification"
in Unicode or UTF-x. The O'Reilly book, "Understanding Japanese
Information Processing," covers the subject in good detail.
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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 [this message]
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
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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