Date: 5 Apr 2000 23:08:25 +0200 From: naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unicode on FreeBSD Message-ID: <8cga09$2rja$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> References: <20000404201412.C261@whizkidtech.net> <Pine.LNX.4.20.0004041827290.11214-100000@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us>
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Alex Belits <abelits@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us> 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
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