Once a Google search got me to a "Buffy the Vampire" newgroup in Italian discussing Unicode...
Mark ————— Γνῶθι σαυτόν — Θαλῆς [For transliteration, see http://oss.software.ibm.com/cgi-bin/icu/tr] http://www.macchiato.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marco Cimarosti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 07:24 Subject: Che cos'è Unicode? > 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 > >
