What's Unicode? Yesterday night I couldn't sleep, so I read a few hundreds
postings on Italian Usenet containing the word "UNICODE", seeking the answer
to this question.
Italian users say that Unicode is:
1) A system to show the euro symbol in e-mails;
2) A better system than UTF-8 to show the euro symbol in e-mails;
3) A worse system than UTF-8 to show the euro symbol in e-mails;
4) Spelled "UniCode", the id of users posting from the portal
<http://www.university.it/>;
5) According to naive hackers, a very smart method for intruding
Internet sites;
6) According to smart hackers, a very naive method for intruding
Internet sites;
7) In Visual Basic, the opposite of a text file;
8) A double-byte character set, similar to UTF-8;
9) A product, still in beta-version, that will enable typing all the
languages in the world;
10) An encoding standard covering the characters for all the languages
in the world.
Opinions are roughly listed in order of frequency.
_ Marco
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