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Article #489Re: International alphabet Standards
From: Masataka Ohta
Date: Sun, 09 Jun 1991 07:48
Date: Sun, 09 Jun 1991 07:48
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In article <1991Jun7.155504.12959@casbah.acns.nwu.edu> hpa@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (H. Peter Anvin) writes: >> Would anyone provide advice? Are there any stable international >> character coding schemes? >UNICODE, although still not officially released, has been taken out of the >final review stage and should be quite stable. If you can wait a few >months, UNICODE 1.0 (official edition) should be available. An ISO level standard, 10646, is available as DIS. >UNICODE is a 16-bit code that encoded virtually any language, including >Chinese script and its derivatives (Japanese Kanji etc). As a Japanese who use Kanji (there is more than 65536 Chinese characters), I don't think UNICODE is usable. Masataka Ohta
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!kddlab!cs.titech!titccy.cc.titech!necom830!mohta From: mohta@necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp (Masataka Ohta) Newsgroups: comp.std.internat Subject: Re: International alphabet Standards Message-ID: <312@titccy.cc.titech.ac.jp> Date: 9 Jun 91 07:48:46 GMT References: <1991Jun7.142651.19529@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> <1991Jun7.155504.12959@casbah.acns.nwu.edu> Sender: news@titccy.cc.titech.ac.jp Organization: Tokyo Institute of Technology Lines: 19