Ironically, it's what Unicode adds to the ISO standard that increases the
probability of uniform behaviour.
You might also note that standards (at any level, but the higher the better)
assist both application and people portability - as long as folks conform.
There is a long history of standards that have failed because no one ever
conformed to them, for whatever reason. However, UCS is hardly likely to be
one of them, if only because there is, as a notorious British prime minister
so memorably said "no alternative".
("What did she so memorably say it about?", I hear you ask. Sorry, that
wasn't the memorable bit ;-)
Mike.
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From: "Tex Texin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2001 5:21 AM
Subject: Re: Benefits of Unicode
> OK how's this?
>
> Benefit:
>
> ISO Standards insure interoperability by prescribing
> conformant behavior.
>
> Example:
>
> Compliant applications process text consistently and conformance
> is verifiable.
>
>
>
> --
> According to Murphy, nothing goes according to Hoyle.
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