Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 15:30:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Alex Belits <abelits@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us> To: Jason <nordwick@scam.xcf.berkeley.edu> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Unicode on FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.20.0004051521550.11214-100000@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us> In-Reply-To: <20000405221720.3209.qmail@scam.xcf.berkeley.edu>
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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
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