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Submitted-by: peterw@spaten.sharebase.com (Peter Wisnovsky)

In article <166v0lINNpj8@ftp.UU.NET> mckee@imail.compaq.com (George McKee) writes:
>Submitted-by: mckee@claude.se.hou.compaq.com (George McKee)
>
>Not to mention the reports that Microsoft NT will be POSIX compliant when
>it appears.

Not really in terms of character set support. My understanding is that
they are going to fix wchar_t at 16 bits to store Unicode data, which
strictly speaking is non-conformant. This raises the general issue
of how Unix standards organizations are going to react to Unicode. It seems
pretty clear that many major companies are moving in the direction of 
Unicode. However, the absence of AT&T from the last Unicode implementors
workshop bodes ill for inclusion of Unicode in SVR5 anytime soon.

Unfortunately there seems to be no satisfactory way to imbed Unicode
within the EUC framework used in AT&T's MNLS system, which I understand
is their implementation of Posix international language support.

I'd love to hear differently, since I envision having to support Unicode
some day, but am loath to do it without substantial support from the OS.

Peter Wisnovsky
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