Martin,
But why bear down on how much of W.E. is supported by 1252? The more
significant point is what is not supported-
Japan (last I looked) was the second biggest software market in the
world.
China may be the biggest market in the next decade. (Yeah ok we said
that last decade. ;-) )
Inability for Western Europe to leverage Eastern European languages,
inhibits utilization of nearby resources...
To be sure the lack of Welsh or Maltese is a problem, but in the scale
of things...
I have already deleted the mails, but I came away with the impression
that Catalan is fine, you just need to write l-middle dot-l, instead of
with a single code point.
For your introduction, you might also want to take a look at:
http://www.i18nguy.com/UnicodeBenefits.html
tex
Martin Kochanski wrote:
>
> Writing a simple introduction to Unicode for ordinary users ("why are you giving me all those features I never asked for?"), I was about to concede that code page 1252 already covers the Western European languages. Then I realised that it doesn't, because neither Welsh nor Maltese can be properly expressed in 1252.
>
> For the sake of completeness, are there any other living Western European languages that need Unicode? From the recent correspondence, it seems that Catalan would not be on that list.
>
> - Martin Kochanski.
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