On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 11:31:10AM -0500, Ayers, Mike wrote:
> Errr - my point is:
>
> "If you attempt to promote Unicode by saying that it now enables
> adequate computing in English, you will not be well received."
>
> What's yours?
Depends on who you're talking to and what you mean by adequate
computing. If you're talking to some Unix grognard about Perl
hacking, then yes, you will not be well recieved. But for large
groups of people - publishers, authors, mathematians, scientists,
programs limited to the ASCII character set just don't cut it. (Of
course, Unicode isn't neccessary for those people; many got by just
fine with TeX and WordPerfect and other programs that have larger
than an 8-bit character set via kludges.)
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