Re: Internationalization
JesusC - Jesus Consuegra wrote:
>
> > -----Mensaje original-----
> > De: Euphoria Programming for MS-DOS
> > [mailto:EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU]En nombre de Cuny, David
> > Enviado el: lunes 22 de junio de 1998 21:19
> > Para: EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
> > Asunto: Internationalization
>
> > [The Questions]
> >
> > 1. Does anyone know if the ANSI character set extends to include all
> > those umlaut/acute/etc. stuff?
>
> As far as I know, all basic character sets are made up of 256 characters.
> Since this is not enough to map all the characters around, there are the so
> called "code pages". Each code page assigns an arbitrary character set to
> the
> 0..255 codes. Complex character sets (like Asian) use different approaches.
>
> > 2. Is this what the Win32 font set is mapped to?
>
> No. I believe that Win32 uses ISO 8990 characters. (I'm not sure).
>
> > 3. Would choosing to support only ANSI/Win32 character set be unbearable
> > for some people out there? That would mean no built-in support for:
>
> Jesus.
IIRC:
unicode is a 32bit character set,and win32 and to some degree win32c
(especially the versions sold outside us/canada) support it.
I'm not sure exactly what the differences are between the ussss/
intenational versions are, though I suspect the us version just defaults
to the non-unicode versions of the dll routines and doese not have the
extra character set files.
there are ISO standard mappings for various character sets and how to
they are signaled when more than 1 byte is needed. I think they come
from pre-unicode (at least on wintell machines) days. japanese I think
is iso220, not shure but lots of messages in the anime groups in usenet
have "gobledygook" subjects that all begin somthing like ?=iso220=? or
somthing.
try microsofts site and maybee the iso's site as I'm not to positive
about any of this, been a while since i looked into it (and that was
just outa curiosity, not need:).
Kasey
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