Re: Information Request.

[Austin Obyrne <austin.obyrne@hotmail.com>]

On Friday, September 27, 2013 10:45:27 AM UTC+1, Austin Obyrne wrote:
> I’m Sure Somebody Knows This. Question : Unicode is a splendid solution to a huge problem but how does it work in practice. Let’s say Alice lives in the Bronx in Manhattan and knows no CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) languages. Her employers are big manufacturers and employ Alice to send communications to those countries. Not knowing any CJK she must have the message prepared as a set of codepoints of whatever language she is to use. Is there an on-site or resident interpreter made available in cases like this. I would be very grateful to anybody who can shed light on how it is done in such cases especially from anybody with hands-on experience. The interest to readers in this group might be in knowing how to program for this situation – it must almost certainly affect programmers who have to implement schemes that accommodate this. Adacrypt.

Many thanks all.

My question has been answered.

There isn’t any onsite interpreter as such – it falls to the programmer – also, it would not be a non specialist keyboard trained operator in such a case.

The choice of mode of operation would be subjective.

The mode that would best suit encryption (going on simultaneously in tandem with reading in) for me would be to work in Unicoded hexadecimal representation and to encrypt this simple hexadecimal string in whatever way was most convenient.  Extra considerations have to be ciphertext expansion but with the price of memory not so great these days that is acceptable even if it is very great (it is a bit large with the vector cryptography that I use).  Transmission costs would have to be considered also of course.

I think Unicode is a great invention at the end of the day. 

From my point of view I do know a lot more now than I did at the beginning of this post.

Let me say thanks to every body for their help.

Austin O’ Byrne