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: 103376,437e9fdc6e4f0fdd X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-04-10 09:12:02 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!freenix!sunqbc.risq.qc.ca!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 Date: 9 Apr 2001 15:53:54 GMT Organization: Oklahoma State University Message-ID: <9aslui$9ic1@news.cis.okstate.edu> References: <9ap1rl$9ic1@news.cis.okstate.edu> <87vgofy9du.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> <3AD1C608.FCBC9B54@mitre.org> 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:6713 Date: 2001-04-09T15:53:54+00:00 List-Id: On Mon, 09 Apr 2001 10:24:08 -0400, Mike Brenner wrote: > This is like the question of whether coding should be done > in UTF-8 or use a 16-bit character encoding. [...] > Or, to restate that question, is it important for Asia to > use the same Unicode, the same character encodings, and > ultimately, compatible web pages with Europe and the > Americas? You mean UTF-16? UTF-8's not the only encoding for Unicode. There's no problem using UTF-16 in areas that don't need to be ASCII-compatible. It's trivial to convert UTF-16 to UTF-8 with no loss of information or vice versa. > It is amazing that in 2001 the fonts that come with American > computers and web browsers don't include most of Unicode > yet. On one hand, it's not surprising at all; is it commericially reasonable for Microsoft to spend a lot of time for Cherokee, or the UCAS or polytonic Greek? How important is it that the average person, who knows no Japenese, has Japenese display correctly? On the other hand, they do - Windows comes with a nice set of fonts that each cover all the basic Latin, Greek and Cyrillic characters and provide full Unicode fonts for download from their website for free. Recent versions of Linux provide fairly complete Unicode BDF fonts. This is really starting to head off topic. I'll try to make this my last post on the subject. -- 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