Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!kth.se!sunic!fuug!fuug.fi!s37732v From: s37732v@puukko.hut.fi (Markus Aalto) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Announcement--new "Unicode" standard Message-ID: Date: 28 Feb 91 10:07:04 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: usenet@fuug.fi (USENET News System) Organization: Helsinki Univ. of Tech., Finland Lines: 31 In-Reply-To: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu's message of 24 Feb 91 22:03:23 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: puukko.hut.fi >> 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! -- *********************************************************************** * Markus Aalto | Only Amiga makes it possible!!!! * * s37732v@puukko.hut.fi | Yeah! It's a sure thing! * * maalto4@otax.hut.fi | :^) * ***********************************************************************