Re: Should we care much about this Unicode-ish criticism?

[Dan Sugalski]

At 05:20 PM 6/7/2001 +0000, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote:
>Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> >It does bring up a deeper issue, however. Unicode is, at the moment,
> >apparently inadequate to represent at least some part of the asian
> >languages. Are the encodings currently in use less inadequate? I've been
> >assuming that an Anything->Unicode translation will be lossless, but this
> >makes me wonder whether that assumption is correct.
>
>One reason perl5.7.1+'s Encode does not do asian encodings yet is that
>the tables I have found so far (Mainly Unicode 3.0 based) are lossy.

Joy. Hopefully by the time we're done there'll be a full implementation. 
This makes me even more determined to support non-ASCII, non-Unicode 
encodings in the core if we want to handle non-western text.

                                        Dan

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