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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jungshik Shin
> Sent: Saturday, August 21, 2004 6:34 AM
> To: John Tisdale; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: MSDN Article, Second Draft
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>numerous national and vendor character sets tha
Jungshik Shin scripsit:
> As is often the case, Unicode experts are not necessarily experts on
> 'legacy' character sets and encodings. The 'official' name of 'ASCII' is
> ANSI X3.4-1968 or ISO 646 (US). While dispelling myths about Unicode,
> I'm afraid you're spreading misinformation about wh
John Tisdale wrote:
Unicode Fundamentals
Early character sets were very limited in scope. ASCII required only 7 bits
to represent its repertoire of 128 characters. ANSI pushed this scope 8 bits
which represented 256 characters while providing backward compatibility with
ASCII. Countless other char
On 20/08/2004 01:34, Michael Everson wrote:
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> I would use Moldavian for text written in Soviet-era Cyrillic.
...
It is unlikely that Soviet Moldavian was spared the importation of
Russian vocabulary and abbreviations (kolkhoz and the like), so there
would be more than just a script differen
From: "Jonathan Coxhead" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> John Tisdale wrote:
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> > I've created an illustration to accompany my MSDN article to provide a
> > high-level overview of Unicode encoding. I would appreciate any feedback
> > related to accuracy and clarity.
> >
> > http://www.ocean.org/JT/Writi
From: "Michael Everson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> At 09:56 +0200 2004-08-20, Philippe Verdy wrote:
> >From: "Michael Everson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Our contribution was intended to weigh the impact on existing text.
> >
> >May be a small correction here:
> >... the impact on existing text already
From: "Michael Everson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> At 07:20 +0300 2004-08-20, Jony Rosenne wrote:
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> >I did not mention them. I did mention that the code point was reserved in
> >the Israeli submission to Unicode and ISO.
>
> No one is permitted to "reserve" code positions, as I have tried to
> explain
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