[6015] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
re: "World" / Unicode
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Reed Wade)
Mon Oct 3 23:47:54 1994
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 1994 04:44:45 +0100
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From: Reed Wade <wade@cs.utk.edu>
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With regard to using Unicode as an interchange format:
I have `heard somewhere' that Unicode is not sufficient
because it lumps together several asian characters that
look similar but are, in fact, considered distinct.
(I don't know a damned thing about Unicode myself.)
-reed
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