On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 10:16:26PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > IMO, one of the big problems Unicode has is that it is a large complex > standard. Telling everyone that the Backslash character may be the Yen > character annoys all the people on Unix and Macintosh, who never had to > deal with the problem, and even annoys the Windows people who never had to > consciously deal with it. "Bother everyone, because someone had some quirk > in a system" has to be avoided, to make a reasonable, implementable > standard. > > More cynically, CP932 users are already Unicode users; all new versions > of Windows are Unicode based. Whether they accept Unicode or not is
Except that the vast majority of Windows programs use the codepage encoding for most things, *not* Unicode. Even new applications, since most still want compatibility with Win9x. What an OS uses at a low level and what applications use at a high level are two completely different things. If CP932 was likely to fade away reasonably soon, this wouldn't be an issue at all; but it's going to be around for quite some time. > irrelevant; if they leave Windows to another desktop system, they're > going to another system that doesn't confuse the Yen sign and the > Backslash. For Unicode acceptance, they don't matter. For Unicode acceptance, most Japanese users don't matter? I certainly hope the Unicode C. never takes that position. -- Glenn Maynard -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
