On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, Alex Belits wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
>
> > I don't understand what possible benefit there is in having *NO*
> > options to deal with all the language-characters in the world. Even
> > if unicode isn't perfect, it is a damn sight better than nothing.
> The existing "market" of multilingual application is so small, and it's
> based on so simplistic requirements (to be able to display and print
> characters, and make multilingual "web pages"), that even solution so much
> flawed as standardization on Unicode can survive. Unicode is positioned as
> the _replacement_ for languages/charsets handling infrastructure -- "we
> know all the characters, so we can write all the words, right?".
Multilingual tools market and small? Get real - just China and India
together are >2 billion possible users.
best regards,
taavi
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