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Date:      Mon, 18 Sep 1995 13:37:51 -0700 (MST)
From:      Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
To:        kaleb@x.org (Kaleb S. KEITHLEY)
Cc:        phk@critter.tfs.com, hackers@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Policy on printf format specifiers?
Message-ID:  <199509182037.NAA08516@phaeton.artisoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <199509181712.NAA15302@exalt.x.org> from "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" at Sep 18, 95 01:12:17 pm

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> > > Er, I don't have my copy of 10646 here at home. As I recall page 0
> > > is just Latin1. If page 0 is in fact Unicode, which already has
> > > encodings for every written language on Earth, then what would
> > > 10646 need any other pages for?
> > The rest of the languages of course. :-)
> 
> If page 0 (sic) is Unicode, which has *all* the languages, then what would 
> the "rest of the languages" be?

Dead languages, or live languages currently without written representations,
being languages of a preliterate culture.

> > Remember that the american continent wasn't with for until they found it...
> 
> I can't parse this. Would somebody translate into German or Spanish for me?

I can't parse it either.  8-).

> > As far as I recall there is still some concern about Sanskrit and 10646
> > isn't there ?

Sanskrit is supported.

> Does 10646 have Cuneiform?

No.  It is a character set standard, not a glpyh encoding standard.  So of
course it does not have Cuneiform.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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