Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 20:02:20 -0400 From: Anatoly Vorobey <mellon@pobox.com> To: Alex Belits <abelits@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unicode on FreeBSD Message-ID: <20000404200220.A82098@sasami.jurai.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.20.0004041102320.6811-100000@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us>; from abelits@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us on Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 11:03:58AM -0700 References: <Pine.LNX.4.20.0004041102320.6811-100000@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us>
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You, Alex Belits, were spotted writing this on Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 11:03:58AM -0700: > > On Mon, 3 Apr 2000, G. Adam Stanislav wrote: > > > At 20:59 03-04-2000 -0700, Alex Belits wrote: > > > I feel perfectly fine with "multilingual" documents that contain English > > >and Russian text without Unicode. > > > > Those are bilingual, not multilingual. I once had to create a document in > > English, Slovak, and Sanskrit (using Devanagari alphabet). There is only > > one standard that makes it possible: Unicode. Too bad UTF-8 did not exist > > at the time, and I had to use graphics. > > There is another format that does the same thing better -- MIME > multipart documents. You mean, MIME multipart documents are better than Unicode if I, for instance, want to handle Tolstoy's "War and Peace" with French quotes in the middle of Russian sentences? I don't think so. > I have just asked, who will benefit from it. No one answered "I will" -- > everyone who makes Unicode support believes that it will benefit someone > else. I will. I need to handle French, Hebrew, and Russian, often in the same document. I want to be able to publish Russian poetry in its original pre-1917 spelling, which includes letters missing from existing Russian encodings. I need IPA. I need math symbols not just in TeX documents. -- Anatoly Vorobey, mellon@pobox.com http://pobox.com/~mellon/ "Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly" - G.K.Chesterton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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