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From: ppan@nobeltech.se (Per Andersson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Dumb Americans (was INTERNATIONALIZATION: JAPAN, FAR EAST)
Keywords: Han Kanji Katakana Hirugana ISO10646 Unicode Codepages
Message-ID: <1992Dec30.010216.2550@nobeltech.se>
Date: 30 Dec 92 01:02:16 GMT
References: <1992Dec18.212323.26882@netcom.com> <1992Dec19.083137.4400@fcom.cc.utah.edu> <2564@titccy.cc.titech.ac.jp>
Organization: NobelTech AB
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In article <2564@titccy.cc.titech.ac.jp> mohta@necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp (Masataka Ohta) writes:
>
>Do you know that Japan vote AGAINST ISO10646/Unicode, because it's not
>good for Japanese?
>
>>So even if the Unicode standard ignores backward compatability
>>with Japanese standards (and specific American and European standards),
>>it better supports true internationalization.
>
>The reason of disapproval is not backward compatibility.
>
>The reason is that, with Unicode, we can't achieve internationalization.
But, what has Unicode got to do with ISO-10646 ? Has the promised (very much
needed IMHO) revision of Unicode arrived ? (1.1). Unicode is a 16bit character-
set which I know did ugly things with asiatic languages. I thought 10646,
which is a 32bit standard (by ISO !) did not, except for doing something
the turks didn't like, don't remember what it was. Enlighten me !
/Per
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