Re: command_line() help
> From: Kat <gertie at PELL.NET>
> To: EUforum <EUforum at topica.com>
> Reply-To: EUforum at topica.com
> Subject: Re: command_line() help
> Date: 17/07/2001 3:48:01 PM
>
> >
> > I also thought that unicode was for non-american
> > text. I realise there is more to this than just that.
> > Would you care to explain?
>
> The Chinese and some others were told to forget using
> thousands of chars
> because 16bits wouldn't hold them. Then came 32bit unicode,
> and because
> of the way it was implemented, it won't hold them all either.
> Rather rude of
> the US designers to tell people they can't spell their names
> on the puter
> properly, in my opinion.
Hi Kat,
I didn't know this.
>From my reading I understood that all the 4 billion-odd Unicode characters
could be implemented. I know that certain subsets of the the various Chinese
character sets have been standardized, and I don't think that there are any
commonly used Chinese characters that are not defined. There may be some
archaric forms that have not yet been codified, but there doesn't seem to be
anything stopping that process except time.
I'm amused to see some ancient scripts have been planned for (Linear-B,
Cuniform, Minoan, Mayan, Phoenecian, Hieroglyphic).
----
Derek
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