Was Unicode on the side of the Vampires or the Slayers?
Mark Davis wrote:
>
> Once a Google search got me to a "Buffy the Vampire" newgroup in
> Italian discussing Unicode...
>
> Mark
>
> —————
>
> Γνῶθι σαυτόν — Θαλῆς
> [For transliteration, see http://oss.software.ibm.com/cgi-bin/icu/tr]
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> http://www.macchiato.com
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> ----- 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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