[Note: These discussion should all move to 18n-sig... CCing there] Christopher Petrilli wrote: > > Paul Prescod [paul@prescod.net] wrote: > > > Even working with exotic languages, there is always a native > > > 8-bit encoding. > > > > Unicode has many encodings: Shift-JIS, Big-5, EBCDIC ... You can use > > 8-bit encodings of Unicode if you want. > > Um, if you go: > > JIS -> Unicode -> JIS > > you don't get the same thing out that you put in (at least this is > what I've been told by a lot of Japanese developers), and therefore > it's not terribly popular because of the nature of the Japanese (and > Chinese) langauge. > > My experience with Unicode is that a lot of Western people think it's > the answer to every problem asked, while most asian language people > disagree vehemently. This says the problem isn't solved yet, even if > people wish to deny it. Isn't this a problem of the translation rather than Unicode itself (Andy mentioned several times that you can use the private BMP areas to implement 1-1 round-trips) ? -- Marc-Andre Lemburg ______________________________________________________________________ Business: http://www.lemburg.com/ Python Pages: http://www.lemburg.com/python/
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