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From: keld@login.dkuug.dk (Keld J|rn Simonsen)
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Subject: Re: International character set requirements needed
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Date: 3 Jan 91 05:08:41 GMT
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tut@cairo.Eng.Sun.COM (Bill "Bill" Tuthill) writes:

>keld@login.dkuug.dk (Keld J|rn Simonsen) writes:
>> 
>> Should one then just say "Use ISO 8859"? Well, what ISO 8859?
>> There are several parts, latin 1, latin 2 (eastern Europe),
>> Greek, Cyrillic, Arabic, Hebrew (among others)...
>> We should do something that could cover the whole world.

>This is what Unicode is for.  Unicode should be considered the most
>useful and implementable subset of the draft standard ISO 10646.

Is UNICODE a true subset of ISO 10646?
Is there a well defined relation between ISO 10646 encoding and UNICODE?

Seasons greetings!
Keld