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From: mohta@necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp (Masataka Ohta)
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Subject: Re: Dumb Americans (was INTERNATIONALIZATION: JAPAN, FAR EAST)
Keywords: Han Kanji Katakana Hirugana ISO10646 Unicode Codepages
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Date: 4 Jan 93 18:16:41 GMT
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In article <1992Dec30.010216.2550@nobeltech.se>
	ppan@nobeltech.se (Per Andersson) writes:

>>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 !

Once upon a time, DIS 10646 was a 32 bit usable standard.

Later, it was transformed into unusable DIS 10646-1.2, an equivalent of
Unicode.

While DIS 10646-1.2 theoretically allows for 31 bit representation, it's
only theoretically.

							Masataka Ohta