Re: Unicode, etc. solution

Dwight Hubbard (dwight.hubbard@mci.com)
Wed, 27 Aug 1997 09:50:52 -0500


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Albert Cahalan wrote:
> > The Asians are -- for good reason -- already screaming bloody
> > murder over 16 bits; either we end up using an awful kluge
> > like UTF-16, or we stick to 8-bit bytes and use UTF-8, which
> > handles all of UCS-4 quite elegantly.
>
> Normal everyday "characters" fit in 16 bits. Since there are
> more characters every day, they can't all go into halfway
> portable filenames anyway. This is why word processors and HTML
> let you embed an image of <img src="foo.gif"> as needed.

The asians are screaming bloody murder for a good reason. 16 bits is a
half-assed method to avoid doing a difficult job right.

I imagine if the new 16 bit character set eliminated the little used
letter "Q" from the Latin-1 character set and recommended replacing it
with the similar character "O". After all, there is only room for the
"Normal everyday characters". Just imagine Adobe or Ouark explaining to
their DTP customer's that not having the letter "Q" is a "feature".

I imagine, if this where to happen that the people who use the Latin-1
character set would be just as angry as the Asians.
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