Was Unicode on the side of the Vampires or the Slayers? Mark Davis wrote: > > Once a Google search got me to a "Buffy the Vampire" newgroup in > Italian discussing Unicode... > > Mark > > ————— > > Γνῶθι σαυτόν — Θαλῆς > [For transliteration, see http://oss.software.ibm.com/cgi-bin/icu/tr] > > http://www.macchiato.com > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Marco Cimarosti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 07:24 > Subject: Che cos'è Unicode? > > > What's Unicode? Yesterday night I couldn't sleep, so I read a few > hundreds > > postings on Italian Usenet containing the word "UNICODE", seeking > the answer > > to this question. > > > > Italian users say that Unicode is: > > > > 1) A system to show the euro symbol in e-mails; > > > > 2) A better system than UTF-8 to show the euro symbol in e-mails; > > > > 3) A worse system than UTF-8 to show the euro symbol in e-mails; > > > > 4) Spelled "UniCode", the id of users posting from the portal > > <http://www.university.it/>; > > > > 5) According to naive hackers, a very smart method for intruding > > Internet sites; > > > > 6) According to smart hackers, a very naive method for intruding > > Internet sites; > > > > 7) In Visual Basic, the opposite of a text file; > > > > 8) A double-byte character set, similar to UTF-8; > > > > 9) A product, still in beta-version, that will enable typing all the > > languages in the world; > > > > 10) An encoding standard covering the characters for all the > languages > > in the world. > > > > Opinions are roughly listed in order of frequency. > > > > _ Marco > > > >
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