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RE: WWW support for Cyrillic (and UNICODE)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard L. Goerwitz)
Thu Nov 3 01:12:04 1994
Date: Thu, 3 Nov 1994 06:59:25 +0100
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From: "Richard L. Goerwitz" <goer@midway.uchicago.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list <www-talk@www0.cern.ch>
>Thanks for your reply. I agree, in general, with your estimate
>of the state of the art of this issue. I just want to point out a few
>things. First, Microsoft GUI (the 32-bit one) supports UNICODE,
>so does MS Visual C++. I know that this does not solve the problem
>for non-windows platforms. Second, EMWAC supports UNICODE in
>their release of HTTP server.
I've heard the Microsoft hoopla, but so far can't determine what it
is all about. From what I can tell, Microsoft is using Unicode ac-
cording to the old, internationalization/localization model. It is
not using Unicode as it should be used, namely as a multilingual en-
coding standard. Take a look at Apple's WorldScript for an example
of that.
If you have the specs on hand, tell me what the 32-bit GUI does with
characters in the Arabic and Hebrew code blocks, by the way. I am
not fishing for a particular response here, but I suspect that the
system is nonconformant in that it will recognize the codes, but yet
fail to show the behavior outlined in appendix A of the standard.
Richard Goerwitz
