From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
Subject: Re: Supporting full Unicode
Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 14:42:40 -0500
Date: 2004-05-13T14:42:40-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <VYednTisVokxUj7dRVn-jw@megapath.net> (raw)
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"Brian Catlin" <BrianC@sannas.org.bad> wrote in message
news:oHOoc.18832$Hs1.18092@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net...
> "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> wrote in message
> news:mcidnS40INqCUT_dRVn-sw@megapath.net...
> > "Brian Catlin" <BrianC@sannas.org.bad> wrote in message
> > news:9j8oc.16324$V97.13312@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net...
> >> The complete definition of Unicode allows for 2-,3-, and 4-byte
> > characters. How
> >> is this supported in Ada95 and Ada0y?
> >
> > It hasn't completely been decided yet. AI-285 is the AI for that. There
are
> > some issues that have to be taken up at the WG9 level (the ARG cannot
make a
> > decision because some countries oppose the only practical solutions).
>
> Why would anyone oppose it?
Because Unicode is not an International Standard, and the needed
transformation tables are not defined by ISO-10646.
You might say that this is silly (I would!), but these sorts of issues have
been debated for years in the character set groups -- and we're just
collecting some of the fall-out. There probably are carefully-crafted
compromise positions that prevent us from doing what we need to do.
Randy.
Randy.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-13 19:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-11 17:45 Supporting full Unicode Brian Catlin
2004-05-12 7:44 ` Ludovic Brenta
2004-05-12 8:23 ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-05-12 10:43 ` Martin Krischik
2004-05-12 14:56 ` Björn Persson
2004-05-12 19:09 ` David Starner
2004-05-12 19:25 ` David Starner
2004-05-12 9:41 ` David Starner
2004-05-12 10:16 ` Björn Persson
2004-05-12 10:57 ` Ludovic Brenta
2004-05-12 14:53 ` Björn Persson
2004-05-12 18:55 ` David Starner
2004-05-12 9:30 ` Martin Krischik
2004-05-13 1:15 ` Randy Brukardt
2004-05-13 17:58 ` Brian Catlin
2004-05-13 19:42 ` Randy Brukardt [this message]
2004-05-14 8:40 ` Andersen Jacob Sparre
2004-05-14 20:20 ` Randy Brukardt
2004-05-14 4:00 ` Vadim Godunko
2004-05-14 17:51 ` Brian Catlin
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2004-05-12 12:40 amado.alves
2004-05-12 14:34 ` Martin Krischik
2004-05-12 18:24 ` David Starner
2004-05-12 20:04 ` Florian Weimer
2004-05-12 14:12 amado.alves
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