I think maybe that encoding (on the Internet) does not much matter. As long as my browser knows that it is looking at Unicode, it knows which, say, SJIS, character to look up in the font to display. Must have table lookup or something.
-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Yacob <unicode@geez.org>
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 17:03:11 -0500
To: unicode@unicode.org
Subject: Planning a "Unicode Only" Week
> Greetings,
>
> A number of the Ethiopian language news services have tentatively planned
> for a "Unicode Only" week during the first week of January. Service in all
> other encoding systems would be suspended during the week. The intention
> is to give users a gentle push to download and install a Unicode font. Users
> will be warned weeks ahead of time of the impending legacy encoding outage.
>
> The choice of the first week of January was mostly arbitrary. If other web
> sites would like to join us for a larger "Unicode Only" week please contact
> me offline. We could reschedule to coincide with the week of IUC-20 if there
> is enough interest.
>
> cheers,
>
> /Daniel
>
>
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