Re: Questionable definition of Unicode

From: Marion Gunn (mgunn@egt.ie)
Date: Fri Jan 25 2008 - 10:10:07 CST

  • Next message: Jukka K. Korpela: "Re: Questionable definition of Unicode"

    On 25 Jan 2008, at 13:02, scríobh Philippe Verdy:

    > ...
    > Unicode is what makes the 10646 standard usable and interoperable in
    > practice for representing text....
    >

    That is certainly what we (in the early 1990s) understood its aim to
    be, Philippe.

    > Unicode goes a little further by also
    > defining or documenting algorithms to handle, interpret, and modify
    > text
    > properly while also keeping most of its meaning (something that ISO
    > 10646
    > does not handle at all).
    >
    > Without all these additions, the ISO 10646 "coded character set"
    > would also
    > appear as extremely redundant.
    >

    My target audiences would find that explanation useful, if agreeable
    to Jukka/UTC.
    mg

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