Re: Giga Character Set: Nothing but noise

2000-10-15 Thread 11digitboy
It seems to me that if not for that, how could anyone make a Chinese font? Who is going to sit down and draw a *myriad* or more characters? Since elements recur, this reduces the amount of labour required greatly. .. .. [OT] Are there any character-encoding schemes that have CENTESIMAL

RE: Giga Character Set: Nothing but noise

2000-10-15 Thread Michael Everson
Ar 18:30 -0800 2000-10-14, scríobh Doug Ewell: Yes, but 1500 times faster? I don't know if 11-Digit Boy was right about using Intercal, but their Unicode implementation must have been really slow. Speed is an issue, it seems. The two third-party Mac demos that use the Unicode keyboards under

RE: Giga Character Set: Nothing but noise

2000-10-15 Thread Carl W. Brown
Michael, Windows NT has had this problem. However all Unicode applications can run at close to the same speed. It took years to get there and the battle will not be one until Me is replaced so that there is an all Unicode platform and a new crop of applications is written as pure Unicode

RE: Giga Character Set: Nothing but noise

2000-10-15 Thread Doug Ewell
Michael Everson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Speed is an issue, it seems. The two third-party Mac demos that use the Unicode keyboards under Mac OS 9 are very slow indeed. and "Carl W. Brown" [EMAIL PROTECTED] responded: Windows NT has had this problem. However all Unicode applications can