Hi,
Here is my current version, updated with some comments from
Mark Davis.
Even though, I am past deadline, I don't mind refining this a little
further, if it will be useful to others. I am sure I will have other
uses for this.
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| Allows for multilingual text using any or all the languages you desire. | Invoice or ticketing applications can print customer information in their native languages from a single database. |
| Having just one way to process text reduces development and support costs, improves time-to-market, and allows for single version of source code. | One version of the product can be used worldwide.
Separate releases for regional markets are eliminated. |
| Standards insure interoperability and portability by prescribing conformant
behavior.
(Applications conforming to Unicode also conform to ISO 10646.) |
Applications process text consistently and conformance is verifiable. |
| Text in any language can be exchanged worldwide. | Eliminates errors due to incompatible code pages or missing conversion tables. |
| Support of Unicode by all modern technologies extends application life and broadens integration possibilities. | Legacy applications supporting Unicode may take advantage of new technologies and integrate with other applications. |
| 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 supports all modern languages, having added 25,000+
characters to the standard.
http://www.unicode.org/press/press_release-3.0.html |
Created by Tex Texin
texin@progress.com
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