On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Jason wrote:

> > i18n needs such as non-English users? Linguists don't see Unicode as being
> > sufficient,
> 
> What do you mean by "Linguists don't see Unicode as being sufficient"?
> Where I work, we have a gaggle of linguists and are currenly posting our
> software to UNICODE (UCS-2 encoded).  Actually, of all people, the "linguists"
> seems to like it the most (besides some wanting UCS-4).

  Lack of extensibility and variants. Don't they just love the great
extensibility means aka non-standardized and non-standardizable "private
use area" that defeats the whole idea of having a standard charset?

-- 
Alex

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