From mfc@medoc.ec.bull.fr Fri Dec 7 12:15:06 1990 Received: from inria.inria.fr by dkuug.dk via EUnet with SMTP (5.64+/8+bit/IDA-1.2.8) id AA04414; Fri, 7 Dec 90 12:15:06 +0100 Received: from bull.bull.fr by inria.inria.fr (5.65+/90.0.9) via Fnet-EUnet id AA22440; Fri, 7 Dec 90 10:16:09 +0100 (MET) Received: from ecbull.ec.bull.fr by bull.bull.fr; Fri, 7 Dec 90 10:08:19 +0100 (MET) Received: from medoc by ecbull.ec.bull.fr; Fri, 7 Dec 90 10:10:25 +0100 (MET) Received: by medoc.ec.bull.fr; Fri, 7 Dec 90 10:12:40 +0100 (MET) From: mfc@medoc.ec.bull.fr (Matt.Caprile) Message-Id: <9012070912.AA16193@medoc.ec.bull.fr> Subject: Re(2): 10646 Advantages To: i18n@dkuug.dk Date: Fri, 7 Dec 90 10:12:36 MET Reply-To: Return-Path: Organization: Bull S.A. (Echirolles) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL8] X-Charset: ASCII X-Char-Esc: 29 * > Our work has been based primarily on encodings without the * > non-spacing diacritics (accents) of Unicode. If it turns out that * > we can't accommodate these, we'll think again: the ability to * > handle Unicode is at the very least an important proof of concept * > for us.[ ... ] Support of multi-character colating elements are mandatory. Thus the localedef format has handled this from the beginning. Whether or not it is useful as "proof of concept" for Unicode, it is necessary to support the ISO codeset 6937. Used in Siemens mainframes and the French minitel (of which there are approximately 5 million in use in France today). matt. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Matt Caprile phone : +33 7639 7752 fax: +33 7639 7518 ---- ---- Matthew.Caprile@ec.bull.fr -or- m.caprile@xopen ----