> Anyway, what I hate is to divide people into two classes, people who > don't need additional files/settings and people who need them. > Japanese users were always forced to read books to configure softwares > to be able to handle Japanese. I strongly hope that Unicode will > equalize peoples in the world. To achieve this, we should not spoil > the advantage of Unicode to ISO-2022 --- the unified character set --- > by spliting the code space and saying "this code space is needed, that > is optional".
Im of agreement; I think the ability to display every character at least once is fundamental. Right to Left writing order also, because its mandatory for many languages. (TopDown, however, seems less than mandatory, and it introduces complexities such as placement of small kana in a character cell, etc... ) Language independant sorting, cellwidth, case conversion, etc, could be used in absence of a specific language locale, or as an all-language locale (for things which are user independant). The minimum font needed to handle unicode may be large, but I dont think its unmanageable. It may even be required to *read* the source code. (does anyone else put UTF-8 in their C files? Works great afaict) -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
