Re: Thoughts about characters transmission
Jim Conklin <conklin@educom.edu> Fri, 16 July 1993 13:59 UTC
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From: Jim Conklin <conklin@educom.edu>
Subject: Re: Thoughts about characters transmission
Masataka Ohta reminds us that: >The problem is that, from the view point outside of Europe and US, ISO >10646 is merely a poor extension to ISO 8859-1. > >It assignes a single code point to different but similar characters >in Japan and China. > >So, please don't say "international" when what you mean is merely >"intereuropean". I think it's terribly important that we keep this in mind as we develop standards for the future, and design, insofar as it's possible to doso, for the long-range goal of a truly international -- not just intereuropean -- network, though it will probably be necessary to miss that goal for pragmatic, interim solutions for a while, just to keep moving on some of the issues for which there are no clear solutions. I must confess that I like Rick Troth's idea in this context, though I certainly don't understand its practical implications yet: > ... I say we scrap the 16-bit >stop-gap solution and go directly to 32-bit and then start looking >toward bit-unconstrained (bit-free?) representations. Jim
- Thoughts about characters transmission Andr'e PIRARD
- Thoughts about characters transmission Andr'e PIRARD
- Re: Thoughts about characters transmission Keld J|rn Simonsen
- Re: Thoughts about characters transmission Rick Troth
- Re: Thoughts about characters transmission Rick Troth
- Re: Thoughts about characters transmission Keld J|rn Simonsen
- Re: Thoughts about characters transmission Masataka Ohta
- Re: Thoughts about characters transmission Andr'e PIRARD
- Re: Thoughts about characters transmission Andr'e PIRARD
- Re: Thoughts about characters transmission Masataka Ohta
- Re: Thoughts about characters transmission Jim Conklin