Re: FSF Should Evaluate Unicode

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From: Philip Gladstone
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1991 19:25

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>>>>> On 17 Mar 91 19:26:19 GMT, david@WUBIOS.WUSTL.EDU (David J. Camp) said:

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

I doubt whether the claim 'can encode every character from every human
language' will hold out for long. 27k out of 65k seems a bit tight for
comfort. I'd go for ISO 10646 which fits characters into a 4
dimensional space allowing in excess of 10**9 characters. This also
means that you can allow the same character to occurr in multiple
positions in the table and thus make parts of the table look like
existing character sets. 

Philip
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Philip Gladstone         Dev Lab Europe, Data General, Cambridge, UK

    Why don't I just go zootlewurdle? Does it matter? Even if it does
    matter, does it matter that it matters?

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From: philip@beeblebrox.dle.dg.com (Philip Gladstone)
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Subject: Re: FSF Should Evaluate Unicode
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Date: 19 Mar 91 19:25:11 GMT
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