RE: languages that need Unicode

From: Marco.Cimarosti@icl.com
Date: Fri Mar 10 2000 - 08:57:07 EST


Markus Kuhn wrote:
> Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote on 2000-03-10 11:20 UTC:
> > Does anyone have a list of languages for which the only reasonably
> > adequate and reasonably well-established encoding is Unicode?
> [...]
> You can also argue quite convincingly that for any language not
> supported by CP1252, ISO 8859, JIS X 0208, KS C 5601, GB
> 2312-80, Big5,
> and ISCII there is no "well-established" encoding apart from Unicode,
> [...]

I would add ASMO for Arabic and KOI-8 for Russian, unless they are not
already on Markus' list under a name I don't know (maybe in the ISO 8859
family?).

_ Marco



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