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Re: Thoughts about characters transmission

Andr'e PIRARD <PIRARD@vm1.ulg.ac.be> Tue, 13 July 1993 11:07 UTC

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From: Andr'e PIRARD <PIRARD@vm1.ulg.ac.be>
Organization: University of Liege (Belgium), SEGI (Computing Center)
Subject: Re: Thoughts about characters transmission
To: Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp>, Multi-byte Code Issues <ISO10646@JHUVM>
Cc: 0003858921@mcimail.com, ietf-charsets@innosoft.com, ietf-822@dimacs.rutgers.edu, ietf@CNRI.Reston.VA.US, WG-CHAR@rare.nl
In-Reply-To: Message of Mon, 12 Jul 93 0:49:59 JST from <mohta@necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp>

On Mon, 12 Jul 93 0:49:59 JST you said:
>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.

I thought that this was the problem of Unicode and not of ISO 10646.

>So, please don't say "international" when what you mean is merely
>"intereuropean".

At least the voting is, isn't it.
Note that some even go for the bet of calling such a code "universal" :-)

Andri.

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