Michael B Allen wrote: > I didn't realize there could be so many differences. Why is that? Are > these just mistakes? I mean if Mac-Cyrillic is what it is on a Macintosh > how can glibc-2.3 just decide to change the mapping for 0xB6?
Some of the differences are because the character sets evolve: A new version of a Macintosh comes with new fonts, and suddenly a few particular, rarely used code points correspond to different glyphs. Even standardized character sets like ISO-8859-8 evolve over time. Some of the differences are because the mapping to Unicode is done by independent vendors, based on glyph tables. Characters like OHM SIGN and GREEK CAPITAL LETTER OMEGA look very similar. Some of the differences are because many vendors have to handle backward compatibility problems that other vendors don't have. Some of the differences are just mistakes and bugs: Many charset converters are shipped without having been tested with a testsuite. Bruno -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
