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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.224.125.72 with SMTP id x8mr393031qar.5.1380358731730; Sat, 28 Sep 2013 01:58:51 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.50.9.33 with SMTP id w1mr230226iga.12.1380358731556; Sat, 28 Sep 2013 01:58:51 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.glorb.com!q9no153575qas.0!news-out.google.com!9ni533qaf.0!nntp.google.com!q9no153567qas.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2013 01:58:50 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=81.157.175.250; posting-account=pmkN8QoAAAAtIhXRUfydb0SCISnwaeyg NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.157.175.250 References: User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Information Request. From: Austin Obyrne Injection-Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2013 08:58:51 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:17321 Date: 2013-09-28T01:58:50-07:00 List-Id: On Friday, September 27, 2013 10:45:27 AM UTC+1, Austin Obyrne wrote: > I=92m Sure Somebody Knows This. Question : Unicode is a splendid solution= to a huge problem but how does it work in practice. Let=92s say Alice live= s in the Bronx in Manhattan and knows no CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) la= nguages. Her employers are big manufacturers and employ Alice to send commu= nications 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 the= re 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 s= uch cases especially from anybody with hands-on experience. The interest to= readers in this group might be in knowing how to program for this situatio= n =96 it must almost certainly affect programmers who have to implement sch= emes that accommodate this. Adacrypt. Many thanks all. My question has been answered. There isn=92t any onsite interpreter as such =96 it falls to the programmer= =96 also, it would not be a non specialist keyboard trained operator in su= ch 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 represent= ation and to encrypt this simple hexadecimal string in whatever way was mos= t convenient. Extra considerations have to be ciphertext expansion but wit= h 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.=20 >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=92 Byrne