Re: [OT?] QBCS

2003-09-01 Thread Tex Texin
Doug, In most industry usages, MBCS refers to variable width encodings, not fixed width. tex Doug Ewell wrote: > Paradoxically (at least to me), the term "multi-byte character set" > refers to a fixed-width encoding, such as UCS-2. The official name of > ISO/IEC 10646 is "Universal Multiple-Oc

Unicode Standard version 4.0 published! Conference this week!

2003-09-01 Thread Tex Texin
NEWSFLASH: Version 4.0 of the Unicode Standard is here! The Unicode Consortium and Addison-Wesley announced publication of Version 4.0 of the Unicode Standard last week. You can read about the impact the standard is having on domain names, worldwide communication and the digital d