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In article <1991Mar18.191959.6959@kth.se>, perand@admin.kth.se (Per Andersson) writes:
>
>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 ).
>

	they laugh at it.  The Asian companies are a monopoly, if they can put
	it down enough maybe the U.S. companies will quit, they have in the
	past. Or, maybe the potential customer will come to believe the Asian
	side and won't support it.  Propaganda works well if it's focused
	enough.  Of course the Asian support ISO-10646, why not, their making
	it to thier benifit.

	Give them a chance, who knows, maybe something positive will come of it.
	Unicode is just starting, I say, lets keep an open mind, but time is not
	on their side, if they don't hurry, they will loose.  Americans are good
	at loosing.




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