Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!nuchat!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Announcement--new "Unicode" standard Message-ID: <1991Feb25.023957.23602@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 25 Feb 91 02:39:57 GMT References: <1991Feb24.164137.11897@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <1991Feb24.180148.21954@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1991Feb24.220323.27961@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX Lines: 9 The problem with the Unicode standard isn't that it's new, or will require massive changes to existing software. The problem is that it's fighting ISO 10646, a 32-bit standard with 16- and 8- bit subsets. Just what we need, *two* standards for wide characters. Anyone remember the ASCII versus EBCDIC wars? -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' .