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From: daglem@idt.unit.no (Dag Lem)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Announcement--new "Unicode" standard
Message-ID: <1991Feb25.130316.12589@ugle.unit.no>
Date: 25 Feb 91 13:03:16 GMT
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In article <1991Feb24.220323.27961@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>, es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes:
|> In article <1991Feb24.180148.21954@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> cs326ag@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Loren J. Rittle) writes:
|> >In article <1991Feb24.164137.11897@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes:
|> 
|> >>	Actually, there is no reason why a new 8-bit ASCII
|> >>definition cannot cover most all of the accentuations based upon
|> >>the English/French/German/... alphabet. I'm sure the people
|> >>making those standards aren't truly dumb, but they will get no
|> >>support for a 16 bit standard.
|> >
|> >That is kind of amusing, as we already have an 8-bit ASCII
|> >ISO standard that covers English/French/German/... alphabets.
|> >Ethan, the Amiga uses this!  I think all these companies are
|> >just blowing smoke, I hope nothing comes of it!
|> >
|> 	By the German/..., the ... refers to things like the
|> Scandinavian languages, which add a tremendous number of
|> characters to the alphabet. There are also some unusual
|> characters in Eastern European langauges.
|> 
Get real! The scandinavian languages do not add a *tremendous* number of
characters to the alphabet! And we're all quite happy with the Amiga character
set, all our characters are there! Norwegian adds ae, oe, aa, Danish adds
nothing above that, Swedish adds another version of ae... Tremendous number?
Nah!

|> >Loren J. Rittle
|> >-- 
|> >``NewTek stated that the Toaster *would not* be made to directly support the
|> >  Mac, at this point Sculley stormed out of the booth...'' -A scene at the
|> >  recent MacExpo.  Gee, you wouldn't think that an Apple Exec would be so
|> >  worried about one little Amiga Device... Loren J. Rittle  l-rittle@uiuc.edu
|> 
|> 
|> 	-- Ethan
|> 
|> 
|> Q:	What's the definition of a Quayle?
|> 
|> A:	Two right wings and no backbone.

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