Re: Hebrew language character set

[dvdeug@x8b4e53cd.dhcp.okstate.edu (David Starner)]

On Fri, 6 Apr 2001 20:10:28 +0200, Ayende Rahien <Dont@spam.me> wrote:
> "David Starner" <dvdeug@x8b4e53cd.dhcp.okstate.edu> wrote in message
> news:9aidu0$9281@news.cis.okstate.edu...
>> the Japenese (who use three differnt codes, and
>> oppose one unified code
> 
> Why do they oppose a unified code?

It's not so much they oppose a unified code, as they oppose Unicode.
Chinese and Japenese use slightly different styles of characters
that were unified by Unicode. (It helps that they already use 2-byte
characters, so they aren't hurt by missing characters as much.)
There is a Japenese "universal" character set, TRON, but it's a
direct rip-off of Unicode for non-CJK characters, much less
carefully designed for CJK than Unicode, and controlled by a
Japenese group, so the rest of the world doesn't want anything to do
with it. Also, a lot of Japenese seem to think that a large number
of characters sets each controlled by a national body is a better
idea than one controlled by consortium / international standards
body.

Ob-Ada: Why does Ada have Latin-1 as Character and Unicode for
Wide_Character? Considering that most Ada systems don't go through
the trouble to get it right on non-Latin-1/non-Unicode systems, and
lot of data in Character and Wide_Character is the local encodings,
it would have been better to adopt an opaque encoding like C did and
deal with the difficulties.

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