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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA5587 ; Fri, 01 Jan 93 01:50:01 EST Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!sh.wide!wnoc-tyo-news!cs.titech!titccy.cc.titech!necom830!mohta From: mohta@necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp (Masataka Ohta) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Dumb Americans (was INTERNATIONALIZATION: JAPAN, FAR EAST) Message-ID: <2565@titccy.cc.titech.ac.jp> Date: 27 Dec 92 19:26:11 GMT References: <1992Dec18.235809.15484@midway.uchicago.edu> <agp22+#@rpi.edu> <1gvpt0INN8s0@hrd769.brooks.af.mil> <BzIwvu.3BE@demon.co.uk> <CARLTON.92Dec21163548@scws8.harvard.edu> Sender: news@titccy.cc.titech.ac.jp Organization: Tokyo Institute of Technology Lines: 23 In article <CARLTON.92Dec21163548@scws8.harvard.edu> carlton@scws8.harvard.edu (david carlton) writes: >I certainly wouldn't call it an insignificantly larger market. Huge >numbers of people use Chinese, Japanese, and other languages whose >scripts don't fit in 8 bits, after all. True. But, it should be noted that they don't fit even in 16 bits. Even character sets used in a single language can not be represented with 16 bits. While not all characters are used in modern Japanese, Taiwan already have a character encoding standard which contains more than 65536 Han characters. >Whether it is worth the >effort to you is another matter, though; Sure. But if you do something, do it throughly, so that you don't have to do it twice. Masataka Ohta