ISO 10646 the final character set?

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From: Markus Kuhn
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1992 11:11

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Many people told me that the ISO 10646 standard will define the final
character set that will solve 99% of todays charset problems. This made me
curious and I have a few questions now:

- How is ISO 10646 structured? Is it a 16 or a 32 bit character set?
- What subsets are defined in ISO 10646?
- How does it relate with US-ASCII, ISO Latin 1 and Unicode?
- What's the standard's status today (DIS?)? When will it be published
  officially?
- What requirements are there for application programs (editors, etc.)
  and libraries if they what to handle ISO 10646 files?
- Has anyone already written a short ISO 10646 FAQ list with answers?
- What else should a computer science student know about ISO 10646 
  in the future?

Markus

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Markus Kuhn, Computer Science student -=-=- University of Erlangen, Germany
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Subject: ISO 10646 the final character set?
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