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From: amanda@visix.com (Amanda Walker)
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Subject: Re: universality of Latin-1
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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.

Yup.  Unfortunately, I suspect that Unicode is doomed to popularity,
thanks to support from major U.S. manufacturers (IBM, Apple, etc.).
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