Re: Andreeson's Comments on Unicode

From: Tony Harminc (tzha0@juts.ccc.amdahl.com)
Date: Fri Jan 24 1997 - 14:23:28 EST


[From:
http://home.netscape.com/comprod/columns/techvision/international.html]

>We're working to make our development tools language-independent
>also. That means the Java applet a developer writes could
>automatically support Asian-language characters, for example.
>Certain data, such as the time and date, could automatically be
>presented in the format associated with each particular language.

I trust that either Mr. Andreeson was misquoted or was just simplifying
for the masses. Linking date format to language is a very big mistake.

Tony Harminc
tzha0@juts.ccc.amdahl.com



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