Re: "Giga Character Set": Anything besides noise

[John Jenkins]

On Friday, October 13, 2000, at 08:30 AM, Doug Ewell wrote:


Have we figured out yet what part of "Hamlet" the Giga people claim
cannot be encoded in Unicode?

I had to do some head scratching on that one. I finally figured out that it was meant rhetorically. Would the inability to encode Hamlet be acceptable? No. So why foist on the world a character set (viz., Unicode) that can't handle Chinese properly? Isn't Chinese as important as English?

At least, I think that's what they meant.