Re: European characters (was 8-bit news)

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From: Ketil Albertsen,TIH
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 12:25

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In article <2261@blue.cis.pitt.edu>, wbdst+@pitt.edu (William B Dwinnell) 
writes:

>Whatever happened to Unicode?

Well and alive, isn't it? I don't have the funds to order any ISO standards
at the time (the last one cost me approx $10/page!), but as far as I have
read in various magazines, IS 10646 is accepted now. Well, that might have
been as a DIS, not an IS, but from DIS to IS there should be no technical
changes. 10646/1 is supposedly a 32-bit identification scheme intended to
cover just about any printable symbol in the world, while 10646/2, or Unicode,
is a subset using 16 bit codes for text symbols (characters or Asian-
style symbols). They haven't allocated all 65536 codes by far yet; large
fractions of the table are white spots, but I am quite happy with that...

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