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Article #4783Re: Unicode: Details Please
From: mr. yawei
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 1991 03:02
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 1991 03:02
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In article <405@ceco.ceco.com> garry@ceco.ceco.com (Garry Garrett) writes: >In article <1991Feb14.001842.24415@progress.com>, neil@progress.COM (Neil Galarneau) writes: >> I have heard of a new multi-lingual character set called Unicode. >> >> It is supposed to give one all the character sets in the world in 16-bit >> charcters. It is supposed to be backed by several Unix companies, Apple, >> and the DOS companies. This probably doesn't belong here, but I don't think it is possible to include *ALL* the character sets in the world. For example, one can not possibliy include the entire Chinese character set for two reasons: (1) its cardinality is huge, (2) the set is unbounded. As far as Chinese characters are concerned, what unicode may be able to do is to include only the most frequently used ones, and then provide a composition mechanism to generate less frequently used ones when they are needed. yawei
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!censor!comspec!lethe!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!lll-winken!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!bronze!yawei From: yawei@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (mr. yawei) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer Subject: Re: Unicode: Details Please Keywords: multilingual Unicode character set Message-ID: <1991Feb15.030215.3254@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> Date: 15 Feb 91 03:02:15 GMT References: <1991Feb14.001842.24415@progress.com> <405@ceco.ceco.com> Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington Lines: 19