At 03:19 AM 07-08-02, Martin Kochanski wrote:
>Thus I'm not trying to exhort, or make a business case for using Unicode,
>I'm trying to seduce gently. End users, if they are librarians of a small
>charitable foundation somewhere in rural England, will have no real use
>for Unicode, and it seems much more honest to admit that at the beginning.
>If their bit of rural England happens to be near Wales, then there is a
>slight benefit; if they have to deal with Slavs, there is more... and so
>the seduction can begin.
I think a more compelling case can be made by pointing out that the
librarian's opposite number in the next village is using a Mac, and that
Unicode will make it possible for them to exchange data without worrying
about incompatible 8-bit encodings.
John Hudson
Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com
Vancouver, BC tiro@tiro.com
Language must belong to the Other -- to my linguistic community
as a whole -- before it can belong to me, so that the self comes to its
unique articulation in a medium which is always at some level
indifferent to it. - Terry Eagleton
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