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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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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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