Another curiosity question: Where does Linux stand with respect to
Unicode? (My apologies if it's in a FAQ, but this is probably an RAQ
(R = rarely)). It would be an happy discovery to find, for instance, a
browser, multilingual word processor, or even text editor that could
render (for instance) Arabic, Thai, or Hindi correctly, using Unicode.
(There is a multilingual browser for MS Win, already; it might use
Unicode.)
Whether OS support for Unicode is necessary, or whether it's up to the
app. alone, I'm not sure. Filenames in Unicode would, more than likely,
need to have OS support, I'd guess.
I'm fascinated by other systems of writing, and quite inspired by
Unicode. The Other's lfns, iirc, are Unicode-compliant. Much as we are
disappointed (?) by Macrosoft, they do seem to do things right as to
character sets. (Moss Doss 6.x is another story, but that's historic,
even if it's still in use.)
Thanks, from a dilettante linguist!
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