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From: jax@well.UUCP (Jack J. Woehr)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: 32-Bit FORTH
Summary: S'koshi
Keywords: japanese, tron
Message-ID: <12451@well.UUCP>
Date: 28 Jun 89 03:26:35 GMT
References: <865@pcsbst.UUCP> <12396@well.UUCP> <1674@hudson.acc.virginia.edu>
Reply-To: jax@well.UUCP (Jack J. Woehr)
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
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In article <1674@hudson.acc.virginia.edu> pmy@vivaldi.acc.Virginia.EDU.acc.Virginia.EDU (Pete Yadlowsky) writes:
>In article <12396@well.UUCP> jax@well.UUCP (Jack J. Woehr) writes:
>
>[ in response to someone asking about 32-bit forths ]
>
>>	again, depends on your architecture. Usually 4 chars per 32 bits.
>>of course, 8-bits-per-char in general is becoming passee, since *REAL*
>>computer systems had better be able to handle japanese 16-bit chars.
>
>Interesting. I wasn't aware that recognition of the Japanese character
>set (kanji, I assume) was becoming an important issue in computerdom (yet),
>outside Japan, that is. Can you say more about this?

	Yeah. Try to buy an LCD that *doesn't* do japanese.

	While here in America our big software firms are busy suing
each other, in Japan they are pioneering novel and sound projects
such as TRON.

	These people are going to rule the world, to say nothing of
computerdom.

	Anyway, them and that tiny nation to the west of them, China,
use 16 bits to represent their languages. That's over 1/4 of humanity,
chief. 16-bit chars, here we come!

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