Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!helios!bcm!dimacs.rutgers.edu!seismo!ukma!rex!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uwm.edu!ogicse!usenet!prism!goodwinm From: goodwinm@prism.cs.orst.edu (GOODWIN MICHAEL LEE) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Announcement--new "Unicode" standard Message-ID: <1991Feb28.221618.15276@lynx.CS.ORST.EDU> Date: 28 Feb 91 22:16:18 GMT References: <1902@public.BTR.COM> <1991Feb24.164137.11897@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <1991Feb24.180148.21954@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1991Feb24.220323.27961@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Sender: @lynx.CS.ORST.EDU Reply-To: goodwinm@prism.CS.ORST.EDU (GOODWIN MICHAEL LEE) Organization: Oregon State Univ. -- Computer Science Lines: 27 Nntp-Posting-Host: prism.cs.orst.edu In article s37732v@puukko.hut.fi (Markus Aalto) 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. > >Well the Finnish and swedish characters fit very nicely to 8-bit >ASCII! >We are very lucky to have a such an operating system as Amiga has. >Switching between different keymaps is just so easy! > I agree with you. Now if only someone would standardize 8-bit ASCII like 7-bit ASCII is, then they would not need a 16-bit character set, save maybe Asian characters...