On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 11:04:36AM +0900, Gaspar Sinai wrote: > Unicode Consortium are just plain wrong if they think that someone > will throw away the national standard and replace it with nothing. > National Standards do not need to prove that Unicode can be transformed > to them, the local standard body has no responsibility to make the > mapping.
More and more code translates internally to Unicode. Both GTK and the new X font system use only Unicode internally. Most Microsoft code is Unicode internally, from what I here. People like the idea of dealing with only one character set and are probably going to continue converting to Unicode no matter what the Japanese think about it. There's one internationally standardized universal character set. There are, I would guess, around 50 active national standards body. Unicode is much better defined than any other character set standard I've seen. I don't think it correct to say that a national standards body can spit out yet another ill-defined character standard and the international standards body must jump to respond. > If Unicode Consrotium are not publishing the maps it will create > greater mess then there really is. Maybe the mess is created by those who continue to make new character set standards without proper mappings to the one internationally standardized universal character set. On the IETF-Charsets list, there was a huge fuss when someone tried to standardize a JIS X 0213 charset, because JIS X 0213 had a Unicode mapping that included non-existant character points. Maybe someone who reads Japanese should see if they've updated the standard, or at least report on what the mapping is. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] "It's not a habit; it's cool; I feel alive. If you don't have it you're on the other side." - K's Choice (probably referring to the Internet) -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
