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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA5950 ; Sat, 02 Jan 93 02:05:00 EST Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!sgiblab!nec-gw!nec-tyo!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) Keywords: Han Kanji Katakana Hirugana ISO10646 Unicode Codepages Message-ID: <2614@titccy.cc.titech.ac.jp> Date: 4 Jan 93 18:16:41 GMT References: <1992Dec18.212323.26882@netcom.com> <1992Dec19.083137.4400@fcom.cc.utah.edu> <2564@titccy.cc.titech.ac.jp> <1992Dec30.010216.2550@nobeltech.se> Sender: news@titccy.cc.titech.ac.jp Organization: Tokyo Institute of Technology Lines: 20 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