FSF Should Evaluate Unicode

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From: David J. Camp
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 1991 19:26

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I just read an article in the February 25, 1991 ComputerWorld about a
new 16-bit encoding standard called Unicode.  It is endorsed by major
vendors like IBM, Apple, Microsoft, Sun, Lotus, and Xerox.  It is a
substitute for ASCII that, using a 16-bit field, can encode every
character from every human language.  27000 of the 65536 codes have
been allocated so far.

I suggest that the Free Software Foundation investigate this standard
for use in their products.  -David-

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From: david@WUBIOS.WUSTL.EDU (David J. Camp)
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Subject: FSF Should Evaluate Unicode
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