Re: Unicode support on VGA console.

Alex Belits (abelits@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us)
Tue, 5 Oct 1999 19:25:34 -0700 (PDT)


On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Steve Underwood wrote:

> language (about the same number can speak English and Mandarin, but less
> Mandarin speakers can read), but still much of the human race would like to
> manage low end products in a language other than English.
>
> Promote multi-lingual everyone!
>

Most people (more precisely, almost everyone) use their local
standards, not Unicode. Unicode is promoted by English-centric or
Europe-centric (iso8859-1) people, and is hated by almost everyone else.

-- 
Alex

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