Re: [vos-d] VOS i18n

2005-09-07 Thread res
On 07.09.2005 04:42, Reed Hedges wrote: > Right, sorry, when I say Unicode, I mean something we choose (one) that > is the most-inclusive of all character sets/languages. Such an > all-inclusive encoding would likely be a multibyte encoding, I presume. Yeah... IIRC you have up to 2^21 characters

Re: [vos-d] VOS i18n

2005-09-06 Thread Reed Hedges
res wrote: > On 07.09.2005 04:02, Reed Hedges wrote: > >>It would be a simpler protocol to use just unicode. > > > Still, you have to decide for some encoding of Unicode... Right, sorry, when I say Unicode, I mean something we choose (one) that is the most-inclusive of all character sets/lan

Re: [vos-d] VOS i18n

2005-09-06 Thread res
On 07.09.2005 04:02, Reed Hedges wrote: > It would be a simpler protocol to use just unicode. Still, you have to decide for some encoding of Unicode... > The problem is that > (1) it's an extra pain in the neck for developers (i.e. > programmer-users) to worry about, especially coming from worl

Re: [vos-d] VOS i18n

2005-09-06 Thread Reed Hedges
Lalo Martins wrote: > And so says Peter Amstutz on 06/09/05 11:41... > >>A related, larger issue is internationalization of VOS in general. I'm >>not sure where to go with that, although Reed mentions one issue which >>is including the text encoding in places like property datatypes and >>talk me