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Article #380Does Unicode satisfy Japanese market?
From: Bowyer Jeff
Date: Mon, 09 Aug 1993 20:33
Date: Mon, 09 Aug 1993 20:33
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Sender: Bob Peterson <"gemgrp::peterson"@tle.enet.dec.com> Netters, especially Japanese contributors, I have heard that while Unicode contains Kanji, it does so in a way that is not acceptable to the Japanese market, and hence was not approved by them in recent votes. Does this mean a product that supports Unicode alone wil not be as acceptable as a product that handles Japanese character sets using other encoding methods. What one other encoding should a product use in addition to Unicode in order to succeed in Japan? Or will Unicode be adapted to succeed? How soon? (It is bad enough we will probably make two versions of some products, 8 bit ISO-Latin and Unicode, but if we have to maintain a 3rd version this becomes lunacy). \bob
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 110cdc,668a546335c65581,start X-Google-Attributes: gid110cdc,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1993-08-09 21:16:53 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmd.de!xlink.net!news.dfn.de!darwin.sura.net!spool.mu.edu!agate!doc.ic.ac.uk!pipex!uunet!news.univie.ac.at!alijku11!aci.cvut.cz!rhino.cis.vutbr.cz!rhino.cis.vutbr.cz!not-for-mail From: jbowyer@rhino.cis.vutbr.cz (Bowyer Jeff) Newsgroups: bit.software.international Subject: Does Unicode satisfy Japanese market? Date: 9 Aug 1993 22:33:50 +0200 Organization: Technical University of Brno, Czech Republic Lines: 18 Approved: insoft-l-moderator@cis.vutbr.cz Message-ID: <246cbe$di5@rhino.cis.vutbr.cz> Reply-To: jbowyer@cis.vutbr.cz X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1]