Well, its more than just that, in my opinion. Besides, they could always use
GB-18030, right? <g>
Most people in the world do not currently think too far beyond their own
borders; of those who do, most do not think beyond the script that is
generally used in their borders.
Sure, Unicode lets the big companies ship products to all of those people --
but the average person does not care that their copy of Word can handle a
ton of languages, anyway!
One of the great things about 10646 and Unicode being in sync is that there
are some people who do not trust industry -- so they can just embrace ISO.
Others do not trust anyone but the actual people doing the implementing --
they can embrace Unicode.
MichKa
Michael Kaplan
Trigeminal Software, Inc.
http://www.trigeminal.com/
----- Original Message -----
From: "J M Sykes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Unicode List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2001 9:07 AM
Subject: Re: Benefits of Unicode
> Ironically, it's what Unicode adds to the ISO standard that increases the
> probability of uniform behaviour.
>
> You might also note that standards (at any level, but the higher the
better)
> assist both application and people portability - as long as folks conform.
>
> There is a long history of standards that have failed because no one ever
> conformed to them, for whatever reason. However, UCS is hardly likely to
be
> one of them, if only because there is, as a notorious British prime
minister
> so memorably said "no alternative".
>
> ("What did she so memorably say it about?", I hear you ask. Sorry, that
> wasn't the memorable bit ;-)
>
> Mike.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tex Texin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Unicode List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: "Unicode List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2001 5:21 AM
> Subject: Re: Benefits of Unicode
>
>
> > OK how's this?
> >
> > Benefit:
> >
> > ISO Standards insure interoperability by prescribing
> > conformant behavior.
> >
> > Example:
> >
> > Compliant applications process text consistently and conformance
> > is verifiable.
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > According to Murphy, nothing goes according to Hoyle.
>
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