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Re: Unicode, UTF-8, and Greek

From: "Curt Hagenlocher" <curt AT hagenlocher.org>
To: "TDS Development Group" <freetds AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: Unicode, UTF-8, and Greek
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 11:39:20 -0700

> Well, I maintain that UCS2 is broken, even if it's also used in Java.

You'd have to define "broken" then. An earlier spec of Unicode
defined a 16-bit address space, and this is what both NT and
Java have implemented. At the time, it was the only spec that
existed.

This sounds like a gratuitous slag at Microsoft and, to a lesser
extent, Sun. Mind you, there are plenty of legitimate reasons
to criticize these corporations, but their early and consistent
support for a unifying standard that has since changed shouldn't
be one of them.

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Curt Hagenlocher
curt AT hagenlocher.org

Re: Unicode, UTF-8, and Greek, Ed Edgar, 10/10/2001
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: Unicode, UTF-8, and Greek, Brian Bruns, 10/10/2001
- Re: Unicode, UTF-8, and Greek, Steve Langasek, 10/10/2001
- Re: Unicode, UTF-8, and Greek, Lowden, James K, 10/10/2001
- Re: Unicode, UTF-8, and Greek, Bob Kline, 10/10/2001
- Re: Unicode, UTF-8, and Greek, Steve Langasek, 10/10/2001
- Re: Unicode, UTF-8, and Greek, Steve Langasek, 10/10/2001
- Re: Unicode, UTF-8, and Greek, Curt Hagenlocher, 10/10/2001
- Re: Unicode, UTF-8, and Greek, Steve Langasek, 10/10/2001
- Re: Unicode, UTF-8, and Greek, Curt Hagenlocher, 10/10/2001
- Re: Unicode, UTF-8, and Greek, Steve Langasek, 10/10/2001
- Re: Unicode, UTF-8, and Greek, Brian Bruns, 10/10/2001
- Re: Unicode, UTF-8, and Greek, Ed Edgar, 10/10/2001
- Re: Unicode, UTF-8, and Greek, James K. Lowden, 10/11/2001
- Re: Unicode, UTF-8, and Greek, Curt Hagenlocher, 10/11/2001