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The other day, I purchased a book entitled _The Unicode Standard: Worldwide
Character Encoding_ (Version 1.0, Volume 1) by The Unicode Consortium,
published by Addison-Wesley (ISBN 0-201-56788-1).  I was happy to find it,
mostly because it does a thorough job of following through with an idea similar
to one I've had for a while.

For those unfamiliar with Unicode, it is a standard (not yet officially
recognized) which attempts to unify most major world character encoding 
standards into one standard which uses 16-bit character codes.

My questions:  Where is Unicode now?  Is it being used, or indeed is there
support for it?  This book, which was printed around September 1991, seems
to indicate that Unicode would be incorporated into the framework of a larger
32-bit international character set ("ISO DIS 10646"); does anyone know the
status of this ISO standard?

(Meta-question:  Is this an appropriate newsgroup for discussing this?)

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