From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 5 14:43:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (news-ma.rhein-neckar.de [193.197.90.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F252B37B939 for ; Wed, 5 Apr 2000 14:43:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from daemon@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de) Received: from bigeye.rhein-neckar.de (uucp@localhost) by news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with bsmtp id XAA11375 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 5 Apr 2000 23:43:10 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from daemon@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by bigeye.rhein-neckar.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA93816 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 5 Apr 2000 23:08:25 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from daemon) From: naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber) Subject: Re: Unicode on FreeBSD Date: 5 Apr 2000 23:08:25 +0200 Message-ID: <8cga09$2rja$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> References: <20000404201412.C261@whizkidtech.net> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Alex Belits wrote: > > Not so. Unicode is a character map. One of many. It just happens to be > > the most inclusive one in existence. > > It is. However if you look at the current efforts of its "adoption", it > is not used as one. It's touted as the solution to all language-related > problems, as a replacement of language/charset labeling infrastructure Who says so? Certainly not the Unicode enthusiasts I have met. You are arguing against a strawman. Unicode takes care of character repertoire, code points, and (with UTF-*) encoding. In no way does it touch on language labeling. > and as the necessary prerequisite for any multilingual text processing. A claim that would be obviously absurd. However, I do consider Unicode a sensible part of any new implementation. ISO 2022 (and what other dinosaurs that may be lurking in murky shadows) is a legacy solution that should die off. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message