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From: yawei@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (mr. yawei)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Unicode: Details Please
Keywords: multilingual Unicode character set
Message-ID: <1991Feb15.030215.3254@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
Date: 15 Feb 91 03:02:15 GMT
References: <1991Feb14.001842.24415@progress.com> <405@ceco.ceco.com>
Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington
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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