From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 5 15:29:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from phobos.illtel.denver.co.us (dsl-206.169.4.82.wenet.com [206.169.4.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3E3D37C26E for ; Wed, 5 Apr 2000 15:29:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from abelits@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us) Received: from localhost (abelits@localhost) by phobos.illtel.denver.co.us (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA15202; Wed, 5 Apr 2000 15:30:22 -0700 Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 15:30:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Alex Belits To: Jason Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Unicode on FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <20000405221720.3209.qmail@scam.xcf.berkeley.edu> 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 Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Jason wrote: > > i18n needs such as non-English users? Linguists don't see Unicode as being > > sufficient, > > What do you mean by "Linguists don't see Unicode as being sufficient"? > Where I work, we have a gaggle of linguists and are currenly posting our > software to UNICODE (UCS-2 encoded). Actually, of all people, the "linguists" > seems to like it the most (besides some wanting UCS-4). Lack of extensibility and variants. Don't they just love the great extensibility means aka non-standardized and non-standardizable "private use area" that defeats the whole idea of having a standard charset? -- Alex ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Excellent.. now give users the option to cut your hair you hippie! -- Anonymous Coward To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message