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From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C)
Subject: Re: INTERNATIONALIZATION: JAPAN, FAR EAST
Message-ID: <1992Dec30.063129.8882@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
Keywords: Han Kanji Katakana Hirugana ISO10646 Unicode Codepages
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In article <1992Dec30.010715.2731@nobeltech.se> ppan@nobeltech.se (Per Andersson) writes:
>In article <1992Dec28.065540.24637@fcom.cc.utah.edu> terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes:
>>I would also like to see this (although I believe the 32 bit standard in
>>question is Unicode-32).
>>
>>I wonder at the transcribability of such things as Ancient Egyptian
>>Heiroglyphics, where it seems the art work is intimately involved with the
>>meaning; I can't argue, however, that Aramaeic and other dead written
>>languages should probably be represented. This was the justification for
>>moving to 32 bits suggested in the Unicode Volume II. One wonders at the
>>amount of memory necessary to store such a font.
>
>Why, oh, why do we have to have another new unicode, invented by some
>stubborn US companies, when the whole world at last has agreed on
>ISO-10646 ? Not Invented Here ?
I believe you are probably unfamiliar with the ISO-10646 draft standard,
which is a superset of the Unicode (Unicode-16) standard; otherwise, it is
unlikely that you would be confused as to whether or not it were "another
new unicode, invented by some stubborn US companies". Your attribution of
ISO work to a few US companies is flattering to those of us in the US,
but incorrect, as ISO stands for "International Standards Organization"
and does not consist solely of representatives of US companies.
The discussion of a Unicode-32 standard has already taken place, and is
already stated to be a superset of the Unicode-16 standard, per its
mention in Volume II of the published Unicode standard. It is likely
(but by no means a foregone conclusion) that the Unicode-32 will either
be a superset of or codify vast portions of the ISO-10646 draft standard.
I doubt that "stubborn US companies" have large markets in Ancient
Egyptian Heiroglyphics or Aramaeic which they so unwilling to give up
as to attempt to cram a new standard down your throat. 8-0.
Terry Lambert
terry@icarus.weber.edu
terry_lambert@novell.com
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