On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, Jochen Hein wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 11:46:40AM +0900, Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote:
>
> > > So has anybody other issues or solutions?
>
> > Issues:
> >
> >  - Number of characters, few hundreds is apparently too small for
> >    worldwide usage.
>
> Yes, I tend to ignore that.  On the other hand, 255 and some
> characters are enough for a lot of languages (for example most
> ISO-8859 using languages).  So UTF8 console (as you suggest) helps at
> least some people.

Minor point, it's actually 512 characters; which is enough for MES-1 or
VSECS and probably other collections that I'm sure Markus can enumerate.

-- 
Rob.                          (Robert de Bath <robert$ @ debath.co.uk>)
                                       <http://www.cix.co.uk/~mayday>


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