On 29/10/2013 8:48 PM, Charles Mills wrote:
What is a significant, relevant example of a subset implementation of Unicode?
I'm guessing that John is referring to UTF-32 or UTF-16 and subsets would be encodings with fewer bits.
Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Gilmore Sent: Monday, October 28, 2013 10:53 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Unicode (was: ... open source ...?) Paul. With full Unicode this is [almost always] possible. With subsets it is not in general possible, which is not of course to say that it is not often possible. There is august precedent for this formulation. Chomsky's statement that translation between pairs of natural languages is not in general possible does not mean that [many]instances of successful translation do not occur. Or again, the zeros of a quintic are not in general obtainable, but there are [many] quintics the zeros of which we can write down at sight. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
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