Re: FSF Should Evaluate Unicode

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From: Per Andersson
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1991 19:19

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In article <9103171926.AA23428@wubios.wustl.edu> david@WUBIOS.WUSTL.EDU (David J. Camp) writes:
>I suggest that the Free Software Foundation investigate this standard
>for use in their products.  -David-

I would hope they stay away from Unicode. Unicode is what the US companies
did to satisfy the need for Asian alphabets, and as I have heard it, the Asians
themselves laugh at it. And it of course has no backing from any standards
body at all. Take a good look at ISO-10646 instead, where the Asian people have
been involved in the development instead of IBM and Apple programmers in
some american cellar !
( We don't need another IBM PC character set ).

IMO, Per
-- 
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Trying a new job at Bofors Electronics,
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