Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 01:15:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Alex Belits <abelits@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us> To: "G. Adam Stanislav" <adam@whizkidtech.net> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Unicode on FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.20.0004050107170.11214-100000@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us> In-Reply-To: <20000405014455.A228@whizkidtech.net>
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On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, G. Adam Stanislav wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 07:19:06PM -0700, Alex Belits wrote:
> > 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
> >and as the necessary prerequisite for any multilingual text processing.
>
> Abusus non tollit usum! Besides, you were criticizing the Unicode
> Consortium for this. The Consortium is certainly not representing
> Unicode as anything but a character map.
Actually I criticize IETF, W3C, software companies and
"internationalization" standards that they produce. Unicode consortium has
its own share of troublemaking and arrogance, however replacement of
languages support with Unicode adoption became the IETF policy on
"internationalization".
> Alex, frankly, we are moving in circles here. Let's drop this thread.
Huh?
--
Alex
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