From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 4 6: 9:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mailout00.sul.t-online.de (mailout00.sul.t-online.de [194.25.134.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BD0A37B61A for ; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 06:09:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tboxberg@schuett-elektronik.de) Received: from fmrl02.sul.t-online.de by mailout00.sul.t-online.de with smtp id 12cT4c-0001dc-00; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 15:08:50 +0200 Received: from mail.net (340061203289-0001@[193.159.16.153]) by fmrl02.sul.t-online.de with esmtp id 12cT4Z-1iDYHYC; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 15:08:47 +0200 Received: from gateway.schuett-inhouse.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.net (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id PAA68115; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 15:11:03 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from titus@schuett-inhouse.de) Received: from schuett-inhouse.de (titus.schuett-inhouse.de [192.168.3.66]) by gateway.schuett-inhouse.de (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id PAA68038; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 15:03:20 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from titus@schuett-inhouse.de) Message-ID: <38E9F670.136392D6@schuett-inhouse.de> Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 15:04:32 +0100 From: Titus von Boxberg X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: de,en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alex Belits Cc: "G. Adam Stanislav" , MikeM , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Unicode on FreeBSD References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Sender: 340061203289-0001@t-dialin.net Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Alex Belits wrote: > > Anyone who has anything to do with the Internet must deal with UTF-8: > > "Protocols MUST be able to use the UTF-8 charset, which consists of the ISO > > 10646 coded character set combined with the UTF-8 character encoding > > scheme, as defined in [10646] Annex R (published in Amendment 2), for all > > text." > > This is not approved by ANYONE but a bunch of "unificators". It never > was widely discussed, and affected people never had a chance to give any > input. This is the same kind of "standard documents" that ITU issues by > dozens. I don't guess what meaning could be transferred by the quotation marks around standard documents. As far as I know (especially the Q, X and I series), the ITU-T produces quite good standards that are widely, if not globally accepted (just think about V.34 or V.29, V.17, T.30 and so on). Check'em out and try to send a fax. It works globally. Quite astonishing, isn't it? Or, if that isn't sufficient, you may use the same software to connect to X.25 networks all around the world. You can establish modem connections around the world (after Bell labs standards ceased to exist). You can connect the same ISDN equipment virtually everywhere in Europe to the trunk line... If Unicode is equally well accepted, there should be no problem with it. Bye, Titus titus@pleach.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message