On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 12:55:38PM +0000, Frank T. Pohlmann wrote: > Actually, I tried to get people to realize the scale > of the coming changes. > > >http://www.linuxuser.co.uk/articles/issue22/lu22-All_you_need_to_know_about-Unicode.pdf
Actually it is funny that you call it Unicode. UTF-8 clearly comes from the 10646 side of UCS, Unicode did not invent it at all, Unicode was from the beginning set out to be a 16-bit code *only*. Then Unicode was reluctantly persuaded to do 31-bit and later they were persuaded also to use the UTF-8. Very recently Unicode introduced UTF-32, which is refelcting what has been using all the time. The way 10646 is coming to Linux is also much with the support from the ISO 14651 sorting standard and the ISO TR 14652 locale standard. I think the proper way to characterize what we do now in Linux is to say ISO 10646, and probably mention Unicode in parenthesis the first time it appears. It should not be that difficult, we have been referring ISO 8859 for a long time. So pleas use ISO 10646 in stead of the name Unicode when you refer to this in articles etc. Kind regards keld -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
