Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!news.cs.indiana.edu!ariel.unm.edu!nmsu!opus!mleisher From: mleisher@nmsu.edu (Mark Leisher) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: Unicode; Internationalizing char sets Message-ID: Date: 27 Feb 91 14:04:53 GMT References: <1671@pai.UUCP> <1991Feb26.094326.3341@ugle.unit.no> Sender: news@NMSU.Edu Organization: Computing Research Lab Lines: 18 In-reply-to: mleisher@nmsu.edu's message of 27 Feb 91 08:52:24 GMT >Perhaps delaying the internationalization of X is a good idea. Who >wants potentially major modifications staring them in the face after >choosing one international character set over another. Thanks to Bob Scheifler for alerting me to this (wrong) little gem from my last posting. As he pointed out to me, internationalization efforts are primarily oriented towards programming interfaces that provide codeset independence as opposed to being dependent on a particular codeset. Humblest apologies for my clumsy mis-info. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- mleisher@nmsu.edu "I laughed. Mark Leisher I cried. Computing Research Lab I fell down. New Mexico State University It changed my life." Las Cruces, NM - Rich [Cowboy Feng's Space Bar and Grille]