On Jan 18, 2005, at 9:10 AM, Pat wrote:
What is unicode?
Unicode is a replacement/enhancement for ASCII; a character code table. Unicode is 16 bit versus Ascii which is 8, vastly increasing the number of characters available.
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Does OS 8/9 support unicode?
The OS does not support it by default, though applications may.
Unicode support in Mac OS didn't happen until OS X; prior to that the OS supported WorldScript for extended-byte character sets,
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