Larry Wall wrote on 2002-12-08 03:04 UTC: > Most people don't give a rip about history, but they do care about > sounding cool.
"Universal Multiple-Octet Coded Character Set Architecture: Basic Multilingual Plane and Supplementary Planes (UMOCCSA-BPM/SP)" ... sorry, but that sounds to me as cool as superfluid helium 3. Still, that's nothing as a brand name compared to "Jeu universel de caract�res cod�s sur plusieurs octets (JUC)", especially when abbreviated. See also Ethernet versus CDMA/CD 10BASE-5 or WiFi versus IEEE 802.11b. Some standards organizations show a talent for making their products unpalatable to the market terms of naming and pricing that really ought to catch the attention of conspiracy theorists. Markus -- Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK Email: mkuhn at acm.org, WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/> -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
