thanks Tom, the issue is that there is no issue - it's a 'fait accompli' - at least within this group.
As you said, ISO-8859-2 would be fine for Polish [Mac CE and Windows CE are not the same, all aogonek display as sacute to name a few problems]. But that is still a 8-bits encoding. And that's how it's gonna be for a long time notwithstanding the drive the 21-bits people exert. In my neighbourhood most printing works still rely on PostScript fonts - whether they're prejudiced or not- and don't want to use the Unicode enhanced TrueType's. The typographical superiority of PS is obvious to them, and OpenType would be a bridge too far. My issue would be that within Western-Europe [or the US] there is no acceptance for anything but ISO-8859-1 [or rather the Win 1252 variant] so a first step would be a 16-bits encoding [which is what M$ offered in Word [8] c.s.] Alas, Unicode pandits have left for 21-odd bits or more. In the mean time having devised normalised forms which means that all precomposed is to be deprecated sooner [rather] or/than later. The gap is getting bigger and bigger between the ordinary users in the Latin script world and what I called the Unicode Avantgarde. They do realize this of course but are so convinced that theirs is the only way... groetjes, Rein On Wed, 5 May 2004, Tom Gewecke wrote: > >>In the mean time, reading the USENET Polish 'ogonki' list I cannot escape the >>feeling that only 1 person there has seen the Unicode Light, and all the rest >>is struggling a daily fight against the programmes that they need to work >>for them, >>but that cannot cope with Unicode/ISO 10646. The Dutch Polish community >>[some 30.000 and growing thanks to the UE] has already >>given up using 'ogonki' in a social environment that doesn't need any >>diacriticals >>and considers me pointing at that 'misbehaviour' as hostile as possible. > >I'm not sure I understand the issue correctly, but I don't believe correct >Polish needs Unicode support. Mac OS 9 (and I assume older Windows) has >always been able to do Polish just fine, it comes with the necessary fonts >and keyboards and uses the encoding Latin-2 (or Mac CE or Windows CE, >basically the same I think). Regards, Tom >
