On Apr 22, 2004, at 8:31 AM, Dan Sugalski wrote:
At 6:03 PM -0600 4/21/04, kj wrote:
The URL above goes to a useful table for working with johab. I do know it is a legacy charset, but I don't know how much it is still used. Technically, ASCII is legacy, too. :)
Ah, at this point Unicode's legacy too. Besides, as long as RAD-50 lives, nobody's got much standing to call a character set "Legacy" :)
Unicode is an actively evolving standard. It's far from legacy.
That evolution is what does it--every deployed version of Unicode is legacy, as there's always something to supplant it. Which arguably makes things worse in some cases--I'm waiting for us to run into problems when we start handing Unicode 4.0-compatible text off to system services expecting 3.x or 2.x code. Made worse in some ways because almost nobody'll notice, since most everyone we have doing stuff can get by with what the 2.0 standard provides.
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