Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 14:39:17 +0100 From: Phil Regnauld <none@regnauld--starBSD.org.lh.bsd-dk.dk> To: bsd-dk@bsd-dk.dk Subject: Re: *bsd og arabisk
Anders Soendergaard
> Det siger de nu heller ikke. De siger at de bruger en
> ASCII compliant variant af Unicode.
Den del er forkert:
> The Unicode Standard defines an adequate character set but an
> unreasonable representation. It states that all characters are 16 bits
> wide and are communicated and stored in 16-bit units. It also reserves
> a pair of characters (hexadecimal FFFE and FEFF) to detect byte order
> in transmitted text, requiring state in the byte stream. (The Unicode
> Consortium was thinking of files, not pipes.) To adopt this encoding, we
> would have had to convert all text going into and out of Plan 9 between
> ASCII and Unicode, which cannot be done. Within a single program, in
> command of all its input and output, it is possible to define characters
> as 16-bit quantities; in the context of a networked system with hundreds
> of applications on diverse machines by different manufacturers, it is
> impossible.
Enten det, eller er det før den endelige Unicode standard blev
frigivet...
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