Thanks Mike. I added "portability" to the standards bullet.
I think the issue of acceptance is addressed in another bullet.
J M Sykes wrote:
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> Ironically, it's what Unicode adds to the ISO standard that increases the
> probability of uniform behaviour.
>
> You might also note that standards (at any level, but the higher the better)
> assist both application and people portability - as long as folks conform.
>
> There is a long history of standards that have failed because no one ever
> conformed to them, for whatever reason. However, UCS is hardly likely to be
> one of them, if only because there is, as a notorious British prime minister
> so memorably said "no alternative".
>
> ("What did she so memorably say it about?", I hear you ask. Sorry, that
> wasn't the memorable bit ;-)
>
> Mike.
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| Allows for multilingual documents using any or all the languages you desire. | Invoice or ticketing applications can print native language names. |
| One set of algorithms for processing text reduces development and support costs, improves time-to-market, and allows for single version of source code. | Applications can be marketed globally the day of initial release. |
| ISO Standards insure interoperability and portability by prescribing conformant behavior. | Applications process text consistently and conformance is verifiable. |
| Worldwide deployment capability. | Text can be sent from any part of the world to any other part. |
| Support by most, if not all, modern technologies allows easy integration. | Applications can exchange text without conversion loss or errors. |
| Widespread industry support provides platform and vendor independence. | Microsoft, HP, IBM, Sun operating systems,
Oracle, Microsoft, Progress databases, and many others support Unicode. See http://www.unicode.org/unicode/onlinedat/products.html. |
| Practical and apolitical design due to the diverse, international, industry and academic membership of the Unicode Consortium. | Members include computer corporations, software producers, database vendors, research institutions, international agencies, user groups, and linguistic specialists. See http://www.unicode.org/unicode/consortium/memblist.html |
| Easy conversion from legacy code pages. | Unicode's comprehensive character set is a superset of existing code pages. Numerous cross mapping tables provided at: http://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/ |
| Internet-ready for use in E-business. | Internet standards, such as XML, Perl, Java and JavaScript are Unicode-based |
| Continuous evolution extends application lifetime and expands capabilities to meet future needs. | Unicode Version 3.0 added 25,000+ characters and new technical specifications that improved, for example, Middle Eastern language support. |
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