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Re: Dumb Americans (was INTERNATIONALIZATION: JAPAN, FAR EAST)

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From: Dik T. Winter
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 10:44
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In article <1hu9v5INNbp1@rodan.UU.NET> avg@rodan.UU.NET (Vadim Antonov) writes:
 > Having unique glyphs works ONLY WITHIN a group of languages
 > which are based on variations of a single alphabet with
 > non-conflicting alphabetical ordering and sets of
 > vowels. You can do that for European languages.

Wrong Vadim.  You cannot even do it in the European languages.  You cannot
even do it in German.  How would you assign codes such that the German
A-umlaut sorts as if it is the letter combination AE, and at the same
time the umpteenth letter of Swedish (after Z).  How would you encode
spanish where the letter combinations CH and LL are regarded as single
letters?  Or Maltese where the GH-crossbar combination is a single letter
that does not sort in the neighbourhood of G or H-crossbar but between
P and Q?  Or dutch, where the letter combination ij is sorted either
amongst i as a double letter, or amongst y as a single letter, or
between y and z as a single letter, depending on who does the sorting?
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From: dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter)
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Subject: Re: Dumb Americans (was INTERNATIONALIZATION: JAPAN, FAR EAST)
Keywords: Han Kanji Katakana Hirugana ISO10646 Unicode Codepages
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