Re: Is it true that Unicode is insufficient for Oriental languages?

From: John Cowan (jcowan@reutershealth.com)
Date: Fri May 23 2003 - 11:12:11 EDT

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Philippe Verdy scripsit:

> Do you include educational/vulgarization publications in your hope? They
> have a very distinct need to introduce concepts with a notation that can
> easily be recognized and learned by students using a non-Latin non-Greek
> script for their native language... Mathematical symbolic notations in
> this case are adapted to local scripts and languages.

Can you cite examples? They would be found in Cyrillic-script languages if
anywhere.

It seems to me that the burden of persuasion is on you.

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