In a message dated 2001-11-25 21:52:58 Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> As for cut & paste, it might work among Microsoft Apps > but if one wants to interface an app with a disclosed > clipboard format he will realize that he can not paste > unicode text that contains '\u0000' characters. Impossible. How much text exists in the real world that legitimately contains U+0000 characters that need to be cut and pasted? What is the meaning or significance of these characters? If Microsoft apps do not allow U+0000 to be cut and/or pasted, which I didn't know, this is probably non-conformant but does not seriously break the apps' Unicode support or show Unicode to be a non-interoperable standard. > And how about UCS-4 ? Forget it. As a text format it is not > even existent. "Not supported by most current software" would be more correct and more fair. Most current Unicode-enabled software was not designed with supplementary characters in mind, and if you dismiss supplementary characters there is little point in supporting UCS-4 (UTF-32). > I think it would be much better to look for another > benchmark engine. If I were Unicode Consortium I would > build one. Just to prove that the standard works. > Wait... maybe it does not? Wonder if any fish will bite at this flame bait... -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California
