Re: benefits of unicode

From: Tex Texin (texin@progress.com)
Date: Fri Apr 13 2001 - 19:21:17 EDT


Michael,

Isn't this covered by the second benefit on the page?
Reduced development costs, etc....

tex

"Michael (michka) Kaplan" wrote:
 
> It DOES, however, underscore the fact that Unicode support is so much easier
> than supporting every random code page that the only reasonable way vendors
> can keep up with every single market is to have a good story for Unicode
> support.
>
> Certainly if there is no business case for a company like Microsoft or IBM
> or Progress (<g>) to support a particular non-standard code page, but then
> Unicode supports the script, then suddenly there is an avenue to support the
> script, right?
>
> michka

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