Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> At Sat, 10 Nov 2001 16:19:21 +0000,
> Markus Kuhn wrote:
>
> > Hardly anyone needs full Unicode. If all you are interested in are
> > European scripts and symbols for instance, then the 3 kilocharacters of
> > the Unicode subset MES-3 are more than good enough for your needs, and
> > the XFree86 standard xterm fonts 6x13, 8x13, 9x15, 9x18, 10x20 have
> > covered MES-3 for over a year now and are widely used.
>
> It is true that hardly anyonw needs full Unicode. However, it is
> different from people to people which subset of Unicode they need.
> For example, as you said, MES-3 would be a good subset for European
> people. People from other countries needs other subsets.
Very nicely put.
What is the point of an app using Unicode if the app only
supports fonts for European scripts? Why not just use iso8859-1
or cp1252?
What sho?ld hap?en if the un?code da?a has a c?de po?nt not
in the f?nt? A bla?k or a ques?ion-ma?k? Ve?y unplea?ant f?r
the rea?er.
Apps benefit when the system makes support for multingual
(input/output/fonts) easy for all languages.
Half solutions may help in the western world but I can
certainly see why people outside the western world are
concerned about Unicode when one hears half solutions
like these.
--
Brian Stell
