What's Unicode? Yesterday night I couldn't sleep, so I read a few hundreds postings on Italian Usenet containing the word "UNICODE", seeking the answer to this question.
Italian users say that Unicode is: 1) A system to show the euro symbol in e-mails; 2) A better system than UTF-8 to show the euro symbol in e-mails; 3) A worse system than UTF-8 to show the euro symbol in e-mails; 4) Spelled "UniCode", the id of users posting from the portal <http://www.university.it/>; 5) According to naive hackers, a very smart method for intruding Internet sites; 6) According to smart hackers, a very naive method for intruding Internet sites; 7) In Visual Basic, the opposite of a text file; 8) A double-byte character set, similar to UTF-8; 9) A product, still in beta-version, that will enable typing all the languages in the world; 10) An encoding standard covering the characters for all the languages in the world. Opinions are roughly listed in order of frequency. _ Marco
