Masataka Ohta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Unicode is not usable in international context.
I think you mean that Unicode doesn't work very well for displaying free-form text, unless you have more meta-information about the text, and you may be right. But for text used as identifiers, Unicode is extremely useful, for testing whether two identifiers are the same. Suppose there are 100 charsets in use around the world. Many of them have characters in common, so two identifiers that use different charsets might still contain the same characters in the same order. To test for that, do we write 10,000 comparison algorithms to handle all possible combinations? Of course not. We write 100 transcoding algorithms to convert each charset to Unicode, plus one normalization algorithm for Unicode. AMC
