RE: Latin w/ diacritics (was Re: benefits of unicode)

[Carl W. Brown]

Michael,

I agree.

If these folks really want Unicode everywhere I will write Unicode for the
IBM 1401 if they are willing to foot the bill.  Seriously I would never
agree to such a ludicrous idea.

Can you imagine a Unicode 3.1 character properties table that uses 16bit
addressing?

Unicode take lots of memory.

Carl

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of Michael (michka) Kaplan
Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 6:16 AM
To: Marco Cimarosti; Unicode List; 'James Kass'
Cc: Peter Constable
Subject: Re: Latin w/ diacritics (was Re: benefits of unicode)


From: "Marco Cimarosti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> Well, I am not saying that it would be easy, or that it would be worth
> doing, but would it really take *millions* of dollars for implementing
> Unicode on DOS or Windows 3.1?

With Windows CE supporting Unicode, I think it would be cheaper to get *it*
on such machines than it would be to support Win 3.1....

Not many people would be happy to go back to programming on it. Just say the
word "segment" and watch us cringe. :-)

MichKa

Michael Kaplan
Trigeminal Software, Inc.
http://www.trigeminal.com/