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irving@eskimo.celestial.com (Larry Gilbert) writes:
> 
> My questions:  Where is Unicode now?  Is it being used, or indeed
> is there support for it?

Support is coming soon, but is not yet available in the mainstream.
Plan 9 (the follow-on OS after research's Version 8 Unix) implements
Unicode, using UTF (multibyte encoding scheme) for files.  Microsoft's
NT has support for Unicode, and may be available soon.  And Taligent
(formerly Apple's Pink project) also will support Unicode.

> 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?

DIS2 of 10646 is currently out for review.  Voting takes place this
June, I believe.  Unicode and 10646 have been merged in this DIS2.
A committee just finished unifying and ordering the Han (ideographic)
character repertoire.  This is part of the 10646 work, and will also
appear as volume 2 of the Unicode book.

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

Probably.  I'm getting mighty sick of troff questions; this seems more
interesting.  An alternative newsgroup would be comp.std.internat, but
that degenerated into a flamefest and people stopped reading it.