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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,1c4b8fdfa762b2bb X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-04-07 08:10:03 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!unlnews.unl.edu!newsfeed.ksu.edu!nntp.ksu.edu!news.okstate.edu!dvdeug From: dvdeug@x8b4e53cd.dhcp.okstate.edu (David Starner) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Hebrew language character set Date: 6 Apr 2001 22:27:45 GMT Organization: Oklahoma State University Message-ID: <9alft1$aai1@news.cis.okstate.edu> References: <3ACA11B0.9AAFDDDD@lmco.com> <3ACB85DF.9E6DBD03@lmco.com> <3ACC6E83.5B860AC5@free.fr> <3ACC9597.14D3B23D@lmco.com> <9aidu0$9281@news.cis.okstate.edu> <9al1da$6b6$1@taliesin.netcom.net.uk> Reply-To: dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org NNTP-Posting-Host: x8b4e531b.dhcp.okstate.edu User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.0 (Linux) Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:6616 Date: 2001-04-06T22:27:45+00:00 List-Id: On Fri, 6 Apr 2001 20:10:28 +0200, Ayende Rahien wrote: > "David Starner" 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. -- David Starner - dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org "I don't care if Bill personally has my name and reads my email and laughs at me. In fact, I'd be rather honored." - Joseph_Greg