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> > Amen!  It's interesting that the Japanese delegation voted against
> > DIS 10646 because it didn't include Han unification.
> > 
> > Bill Tuthill
> 
> I understand that Japan is also adamantly against Unicode.
> 
> Mark Leisher

Mark, don't believe everything you see on the net (including what I'm
writing now :-).

Bill, could you re-check the accuracy of your article, and, if it is
accurate, please give us the names of the Japanese delegates involved,
or the name of their working group, and any other relevant info such
as document numbers and/or voting date/place.


> Does
> anyone have any current info on anything that is being proposed in
> lieu of ISO/IEC DIS 10646 and Unicode?

Some Japanese have set up an informal group to discuss the possible
extension of Japanese EUC and Shift-JIS to support the new
supplementary Kanji set called JIS X 0212. Some of these proposals
mushroomed into "internationalization" extensions. I may be able to
provide more info if anyone is interested.

(This is not to say that "the Japanese" are against both 10646 and
Unicode.)
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Erik M. van der Poel                                      erik@sra.co.jp
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