RE: Convincing executives of character code perils

2000-10-25 Thread Carl W. Brown
technology they you will be left behind. Carl -Original Message- From: J. P. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2000 11:23 AM To: Unicode List Subject: Convincing executives of character code perils Articulating and expressing concerns to company executives about the perils

Re: Convincing executives of character code perils

2000-10-25 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
well, most of the post is opinion but I agree with a lot of it so that's okay. :-) This came with Win 95. Unfortunately MS was competing with IBM's OS/2 at the time and wanted good performance on a 4MB system. While they use Unicode internally they dropped Unicode support from the user API.

RE: Convincing executives of character code perils

2000-10-24 Thread Marco . Cimarosti
. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 24 Oct 2000, Tue 20.23 To: Unicode List Subject: Convincing executives of character code perils Articulating and expressing concerns to company executives about the perils associated with managing multiple character sets is DAUNTING task. The company

Re: Convincing executives of character code perils

2000-10-24 Thread Suzanne Topping
- Original Message - From: "J. P." [EMAIL PROTECTED] Articulating and expressing concerns to company executives about the perils associated with managing multiple character sets is DAUNTING task. The company would like to move ahead regardless, which tells me we haven't done a

Re: Convincing executives of character code perils

2000-10-24 Thread Tex Texin
Did you express your concerns about introducing additional architectures into your configuration, when you went from single platform to multi-platform? Weren't the execs concerned about interoperation between systems with such different code pages as EBCDIC and ASCII? Did those ready-aim-fire

Re: Convincing executives of character code perils

2000-10-24 Thread Tex Texin
Did you express your concerns about introducing additional architectures into your configuration, when you went from single platform to multi-platform? Weren't the execs concerned about interoperation between systems with such different code pages as EBCDIC and ASCII? Did those ready-aim-fire