[6661] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: Frames & WWW
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Lilley, Computer Graphics Un)
Wed Nov 16 16:43:14 1994
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 1994 21:58:24 +0100
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From: lilley@v5.cgu.mcc.ac.uk (Chris Lilley, Computer Graphics Unit)
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Phillip M. Hallam-Baker said, in amongst a bunch of other stuff:
> Until UNICODE based programming languages become comonplace I doubt that there
> will be much use for the UNICODE variants since most other text needing fancy
> fonts will have other formatting (eg HTML).
Urf.
Let's pretend for a moment that the Web and indeed most of computing science was
all invented in Japan and supports only Kanji characters. Someone boldly
suggests that it would make a few people happy on the other side of the pacific
rim if a larger code space was used so we couild have, for example, a few code
pages for western european languages. These code pages make aup a fledgeling new
standard called ASCII
But then someone else say no, lets wait a bit. If people need this fancy spazzy
stuff they probably need other features as well - besides, hardly anyone is
using it
For people who use languages ill-served by ISO Latin 1, the extra characters are
not just fancy fonts, they are a means of just typing in ordinary text. You
can't get more basic than that.
--
Chris
