Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 10:35:43 +0200 (EET) From: Taavi Talvik <taavi@uninet.ee> To: Alex Belits <abelits@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Unicode on FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.1000405103354.15319A-100000@ns.uninet.ee> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.20.0004041722140.11214-100000@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us>
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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
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