Re: Anachronistic Acronyms in Parrot?

[Simon Cozens]

On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 01:57:50PM +0100, Donal K. Fellows wrote:
> Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > I am also willing to put up with some hair if it means things go faster 
> > many places. I've my eye on China and Japan (amongst other places) as 
> > targets for parrot, and Unicode's not gonna cut it there.
> 
> Why would UCS-16 not make it in China or Japan, where you already need
> a multibyte encoding anyway?  Or are you persisting in mixing up
> Unicode and UTF-8?

What on earth is UCS-16? Are you persisting in mixing up UCS-2 and UTF-16? :)

I can only speak for Japan, but there's basically hysterical reasons why
Unicode isn't (YET) going to cut it there. I could provide, on demand, a
long list of reasons, which formed part on my undergraduate thesis on Japanese
text encoding mechanisms, but it's a little long to post here right now.

-- 
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