From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,85e8c53792269cfd X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Ronald Cole Subject: Re: Ada and UNICODE? Date: 1998/05/19 Message-ID: <8790nxooru.fsf@yakisoba.forte-intl.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 354772759 References: <355CA32B.7B77@erols.com> <35606616.0@news4.his.com> X-Complaints-To: newsabuse@supernews.com X-Trace: 895618455 EUKXRERNICB63CF8DC usenet52.supernews.com Organization: Forte International Technical Consulting - +1 760 499 9142 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-05-19T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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. -- Forte International, P.O. Box 1412, Ridgecrest, CA 93556-1412 Ronald Cole Phone: (760) 499-9142 President, CEO Fax: (760) 499-9152 My PGP fingerprint: E9 A8 E3 68 61 88 EF 43 56 2B CE 3E E9 8F 3F 2B