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From: dlv@cunyvms1.gc.cuny.edu (Dimitri Vulis, CUNY GC Math)
Subject: Re: universality of Latin-1
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Date: Sun, 14 Apr 1991 02:50:52 GMT

In article <1991Apr12.123302.17817@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>, rja7m@calico.cs.Virginia.EDU (Ran Atkinson) writes:
>UNICODE isn't a sufficient solution as it doesn't fully support (for
>example) Vietnamese.  DIS 10646 is a sufficient solution.
*NOT TRUE*

Unicode supports Vietnamese.  You either don't know what you're taling about
or you're lying.

On the other hand, Cyrillic support in 10646 totally sucks, and Unicode
got it right.  Our proposed comments on what's wrong with the Cyrillic in
10646 are 12 pages long. :)

>
>I wish it were otherwise, but I have to live in the real world...

Well, it's certainly easier to get a copy of Unicode than of 10646 to see
for oneself what's in it and what's not...

Dimitri Vulis, D&M
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