On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Markus Kuhn writes:
> > I was delighted to read in
> >
> > ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2/WG 3/N 441
> > http://wwwold.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC2/WG3/docs/n441.pdf
> >
> > how ISO 8859-16 is officially considered by the Kingdom of the
> > Netherlands a threat to their national security.
>
> According to their explanation, Unicode is a threat of their national
> security as well :-) U+015F != U+0219 ...
But we all know that Unicode is far more dangerous than that. It aims
after all at wiping out all other encodings, including the ISO 6937
teletext encoding, without which the Kingdom of the Netherlands would
collapse immediately as citizens wouldn't know any more how to encode
their names. The author of N441 is by the way also the guy responsible for
the MES-1 subset.
Markus
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