On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 03:21:44PM +0100, Keld J�rn Simonsen wrote: : Yes, true. And that is then why I find it funny that the people : that were dead-set against anything other than 16 bit, now gets all : the glory for the stuff they fought so hard. The irony of history:-)
Yes, it's ironic, but the reason they get the glory has very little to do with history--except the part of history in which they were clever enough to pick the snappier name. All other things being equal, had the 10646 and Unicode folks swapped names from the start, it would still be called Unicode today, because that's the "right" name for it, culturally speaking. Most people don't give a rip about history, but they do care about sounding cool. Larry -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
