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Article #2362Re: International character set requirements needed
From: Keld J|rn Simonsen
Date: Thu, 03 Jan 1991 05:08
Date: Thu, 03 Jan 1991 05:08
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tut@cairo.Eng.Sun.COM (Bill "Bill" Tuthill) writes: >keld@login.dkuug.dk (Keld J|rn Simonsen) writes: >> >> Should one then just say "Use ISO 8859"? Well, what ISO 8859? >> There are several parts, latin 1, latin 2 (eastern Europe), >> Greek, Cyrillic, Arabic, Hebrew (among others)... >> We should do something that could cover the whole world. >This is what Unicode is for. Unicode should be considered the most >useful and implementable subset of the draft standard ISO 10646. Is UNICODE a true subset of ISO 10646? Is there a well defined relation between ISO 10646 encoding and UNICODE? Seasons greetings! Keld
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