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Re: The ultimate encoding

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From: Masataka Ohta
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 03:41
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	sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog) writes:

>Seriously, I disagrees with the statement above, and I think most
>other people do. Putting the language into the coding gives more
>problems than it solves. How deal with umpteen instances of the
>same character because it is treated different language?

If an application must neglect language difference, it can do so in the
application.

>But Unicode is not a partial solution for the Soviet Union in the 1980s. 

Agreed.

>Unicode is a tool for complete solutions for the world in the 21st century.

Disagreed. Perhaps, you are trying to force all the people in the world
(or, at least Japanese) to use Latin alphabet only in the 21st century.

But, we won't.

						Masataka Ohta
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