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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA5952 ; Sat, 02 Jan 93 02:05:06 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: INTERNATIONALIZATION: JAPAN, FAR EAST Message-ID: <2616@titccy.cc.titech.ac.jp> Date: 4 Jan 93 19:04:41 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> <2565@titccy.cc.titech.ac.jp> <1992Dec28.064029.24421@fcom.cc.utah.edu> Sender: news@titccy.cc.titech.ac.jp Organization: Tokyo Institute of Technology Lines: 36 In article <1992Dec28.064029.24421@fcom.cc.utah.edu> terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes: >|> True. But, it should be noted that they don't fit even in 16 bits. > >Work is already under way to adapt Unicode to 32 bits. I would be interested >in any similar work you know of in progress for XPG4/JIS. Anyway, a program written for 16 bit Unicode can not be usable with 32 bit Unicode. >I am *not* >interested in proposing or attempting to provide yet another standard, if >that is what you believe is necessary. Then, why you are interested in using yet non-existent standard? BTW, can you explain what XPG4 is? >Again, I want to stress that we are about the identification and adoption >of an existing standard rather than the specification and ratification of >a new one. Then, the only standard available now for internationalization is ISO 2022. It can, at least, differentiate Chinese and Japanese character. Do you want to use it? >We may invoke "tricks" to reduce storage requirements or to >retrofit existing input mechanisms, but we are not attempting a new standard. Again, existing input mechanism for Japanese is so large that even very complex tranlation does not affect its performance. Masataka Ohta