On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 04:49:08PM -0700, Stewart Stremler wrote: > > I think the problem is that unicode tried to solve the wrong problem. > The real problem wasn't "how do we let everyone have single-character > glyphs", but "how do we let people write in their own language on a > computer". Since we're ready to accept bloat at the outset, a better > approach (to my way of thinking) would be to toss out ANSI, stick with > ASCII, and redefine those ANSI characters as indicators for variable > length strings that should constitute a glyph. >
Umm ... how you gonna map 128 codes to the 3,000 or so characters that, say, simplified Mandarin needs? -- Lan Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Guy, SCM Specialist 858-354-0616 -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
