Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!pa.dec.com!jrdzzz.jrd.dec.com!tkou02.enet.dec.com!jit345!diamond From: diamond@jit345.swstokyo.dec.com (Norman Diamond) Newsgroups: comp.std.c Subject: Re: wchar_t values Message-ID: <1991Apr8.012312.1916@tkou02.enet.dec.com> Date: 8 Apr 91 01:23:12 GMT References: <15651@smoke.brl.mil> <1991Apr4.171657.27791@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <661@taumet.com> Sender: usenet@tkou02.enet.dec.com (USENET News System) Reply-To: diamond@jit345.enet@tkou02.enet.dec.com (Norman Diamond) Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Japan , Tokyo Lines: 23 In article <661@taumet.com> steve@taumet.com (Stephen Clamage) writes: >One member's name contains an umlaut (two horizontal dots above a vowel). >He asked us to imagine how it feels NEVER to be able to see your name >spelled correctly in any computer correspondence. (I can't even provide >the example here.) This might be a bit excessive. Surely the member's name is spelled correctly in correspondence from his home country. Japanese people's names are usually spelled correctly in correspondence from Japan (except when I'm writing it) but not in correspondence from Europe. One issue is to make a programming language readable and writable in a standard manner internationally, which means using some common denominator in the character set and human readability factors. This might be a wise idea. The other issue is to force every computer in every country to support all characters that are used in all the worlds' languages. I think this would be excessive. Anyway, it is different from the other issue. -- Norman Diamond diamond@tkov50.enet.dec.com If this were the company's opinion, I wouldn't be allowed to post it.