National Languge support

Simon E Spero <ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu> Fri, 09 July 1993 04:38 UTC

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From: Simon E Spero <ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu>

I've just been playing with UNICODE, and I had a little idea as to how 
NLS could be added to whois++ really simply. How about getting another
port number from IANA, and running whois++ on that port unchanged, except 
that instead of ascii we use unicode for everything? 

All it would need would be a few trivial changes in the front end, a couple
of lines tacked on the front of the standard. 

Of course, a lot of the search modifiers in the standard at the moment are 
hopelessly Eurocentric- should "technion" match "the technion"? Should it 
match "hatechnion"? Should "bit" match "habit"?. This is too big a problem
to solve in wnils, but allowing 'X-" modifiers makes it someone elses
problem. 

Simon