Re: UTF-8, ISO C Am.1, and POSIX

From: Roland Wang (rwang@verity.com)
Date: Thu Aug 14 1997 - 16:26:39 EDT


Though the list is intended for Unicode technical discussion,

> From unicode@unicode.org Thu Aug 14 12:36 PDT 1997
> From: Frank da Cruz <fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu>
> Subject: Re: UTF-8, ISO C Am.1, and POSIX
>
> > only one where they all chose the SAME solution. This single
> > example is traffic lights -- in all places I've ever visited,
> > red means stop and green means go.
> >
> Let me be the first to say that, reportedly, in China 20 years ago,
> and maybe still, red means go and green means stop :-)

I was born and lived in China for more than 20 years, and I have never
heard such a thing.

_Roland Wang



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