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From: Norbert.Zacharias@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de (Norbert Zacharias)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Unicode: Details Please
Keywords: multilingual Unicode character set
Message-ID: <4640@uniol.UUCP>
Date: 15 Feb 91 15:31:19 GMT
References: <1991Feb14.001842.24415@progress.com> <405@ceco.ceco.com> <1991Feb15.030215.3254@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
Organization: University of Oldenburg, Germany
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yawei@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (mr. yawei) writes:

>In article <405@ceco.ceco.com> garry@ceco.ceco.com (Garry Garrett) writes:
>>In article <1991Feb14.001842.24415@progress.com>, neil@progress.COM (Neil Galarneau) writes:
>>> I have heard of a new multi-lingual character set called Unicode.
>>> 
>>> It is supposed to give one all the character sets in the world in 16-bit
>>> charcters.  It is supposed to be backed by several Unix companies, Apple,
>>> and the DOS companies.

>   This probably doesn't belong here, but I don't think it is possible
>to include *ALL* the character sets in the world. For example, one can
>not possibliy include the entire Chinese character set for two reasons: 
>(1) its cardinality is huge, (2) the set is unbounded.

>   As far as Chinese characters are concerned, what unicode may be able
>to do is to include only the most frequently used ones, and then provide 
>a composition mechanism to generate less frequently used ones when they 
>are needed.

>   yawei
Hi all
I know that there is an Code that contains every usual character include
the chinese one. It was developt by the GMD (Gesellschaft fuer Mathematik und
Datenverabeitung) for the chinese/japanese version of there OS EUMEL in 85/86.
If one is interested in i'll try to get a file wich contains the definition
from GMD .(i only have a map with the chars )

Norbert
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