Once a Google search got me to a "Buffy the Vampire" newgroup in
Italian discussing Unicode...
Mark
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Γνῶθι σαυτόν — Θαλῆς
[For transliteration, see http://oss.software.ibm.com/cgi-bin/icu/tr]
----- Original Message -----
From: "Marco Cimarosti" <marco.cimarosti@essetre.it>
To: <unicode@unicode.org>
Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 07:24
Subject: Che cos'è Unicode?
> 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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