Richard, The list is attached. The page contains some links which would help someone get started. I did mean to make a couple more small changes that I haven't gotten to yet. In particular, someone wrote me that the item: "Standards insure interoperability and portability by prescribing conformant behavior." was too buzzword intense. I thought it said what it needed to say, but if someone can suggest a way to say it more plainly I would appreciate it. There are a couple other things that could be tweaked and I haven't addressed coloring or esthetics of its presentation at all. I'll give it a url shortly. I am changing personal web site host. I did offer it to the consortium if they want it. Feel free to suggest further improvements to me. And if I haven't said it before, thanks to those of you that provided suggestions already. tex Richard Cook wrote: > > Sorry, I tuned out for a moment: is there a URL for the final version of > Tex's tabulation of benefits? > > Also, I'd appreciate any similar links that might be used in a page of > info for the uninitiated. > > Best, > Richard -- According to Murphy, nothing goes according to Hoyle. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tex Texin Director, International Business mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-781-280-4271 Fax:+1-781-280-4655 Progress Software Corp. 14 Oak Park, Bedford, MA 01730 http://www.Progress.com #1 Embedded Database Globalization Program http://www.Progress.com/partners/globalization.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------------Title: Unicode Benefits
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| Allows for multilingual text using any or all the languages you desire. | Invoice or ticketing applications can print customer information in their native languages from a single database. |
| Having just one way to process text reduces development and support costs, improves time-to-market, and allows for single version of source code. | One version of the product can be used worldwide.
Separate releases for regional markets are eliminated. |
| Standards insure interoperability and portability by prescribing conformant
behavior.
(Applications conforming to Unicode also conform to ISO 10646.) |
Applications process text consistently and conformance is verifiable. |
| Text in any language can be exchanged worldwide. | Eliminates errors due to incompatible code pages or missing conversion tables. |
| Support of Unicode by all modern technologies extends application life and broadens integration possibilities. | Legacy applications supporting Unicode may take advantage of new technologies and integrate with other applications. |
| Widespread industry support provides platform and vendor independence. | Microsoft, HP, IBM, Sun, Unisys operating systems,
Oracle, Microsoft, Progress databases, and many others support Unicode. See http://www.unicode.org/unicode/onlinedat/products.html. |
| Practical and apolitical design due to the diverse, international, industry and academic membership of the Unicode Consortium. | Members include computer corporations, software producers, database vendors, research institutions, international agencies, user groups, and linguistic specialists. See http://www.unicode.org/unicode/consortium/memblist.html |
| Easy conversion from legacy code pages. | Unicode's comprehensive character set is a superset of existing code pages. Numerous cross mapping tables provided at: http://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/ |
| Internet-ready for use in E-business. | Internet standards, such as XML, Perl, Java and JavaScript are Unicode-based |
| Continuous evolution extends application lifetime and expands capabilities to meet future needs. | Unicode Version 3.0 supports all modern languages, having added 25,000+
characters to the standard.
http://www.unicode.org/press/press_release-3.0.html |
Created by Tex Texin
Director, International Business
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
