From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 5 1:35:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ns.uninet.ee (ns.uninet.ee [194.204.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E36937BE34 for ; Wed, 5 Apr 2000 01:35:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from taavi@uninet.ee) Received: by ns.uninet.ee (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 92EA125865; Wed, 5 Apr 2000 10:35:43 +0200 (EET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ns.uninet.ee (Postfix) with SMTP id 8E0B214A20; Wed, 5 Apr 2000 10:35:43 +0200 (EET) Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 10:35:43 +0200 (EET) From: Taavi Talvik To: Alex Belits Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Unicode on FreeBSD In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, Alex Belits wrote: > On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > > I don't understand what possible benefit there is in having *NO* > > options to deal with all the language-characters in the world. Even > > if unicode isn't perfect, it is a damn sight better than nothing. > The existing "market" of multilingual application is so small, and it's > based on so simplistic requirements (to be able to display and print > characters, and make multilingual "web pages"), that even solution so much > flawed as standardization on Unicode can survive. Unicode is positioned as > the _replacement_ for languages/charsets handling infrastructure -- "we > know all the characters, so we can write all the words, right?". Multilingual tools market and small? Get real - just China and India together are >2 billion possible users. best regards, taavi ----------------------------------------------------------- Taavi Talvik | Internet: taavi@uninet.ee Unineti Andmeside AS | phone: +372 6405150 Ravala pst. 10 | fax: +372 6405151 Tallinn 10143, Estonia | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message