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From: mohta@necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp (Masataka Ohta)
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Subject: Re: International alphabet Standards
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Date: 9 Jun 91 07:48:46 GMT
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In article <1991Jun7.155504.12959@casbah.acns.nwu.edu>
	hpa@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (H. Peter Anvin) writes:

>> Would anyone provide advice?  Are there any stable international
>> character coding schemes?

>UNICODE, although still not officially released, has been taken out of the
>final review stage and should be quite stable.  If you can wait a few
>months, UNICODE 1.0 (official edition) should be available.

An ISO level standard, 10646, is available as DIS.

>UNICODE is a 16-bit code that encoded virtually any language, including
>Chinese script and its derivatives (Japanese Kanji etc).

As a Japanese who use Kanji (there is more than 65536 Chinese characters), I
don't think UNICODE is usable.

						Masataka Ohta