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

[Nick Ing-Simmons]

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.


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