> -----Original Message----- > From: William Overington [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, July 08, 2002 10:20 AM
> To me, such a distinction means that people who are using > lower cost, more > generally available software packages, might by such an > approach be able in > the not too distant future to use files in a non-proprietary > portable format > and get much better results than just using monochrome > traditional plain text. I don't see how putting this sort of stuff in Unicode in any way speeds up adoption into real-world use. Applications have to "learn" how to deal with the text manipulation specification, whether it's provided as markup or theoretically stored in Unicode. Bottom line is that it would take a while to trickle down to the level you describe. Unicode isn't the/a solution for bridging your digital divide.
