Re: [long] Use of Unicode in AbiWord

From: John Cowan (cowan@locke.ccil.org)
Date: Fri Mar 19 1999 - 09:51:43 EST


Markus Kuhn scripsit:

> It would have been
> nice if Unicode gave meaning to the existing C0 positions instead of
> adding even more control codes. We have to send everything through
> converters anyway, so backwards compatibility is not that much of an
> issue.

Unicode does, in fact, assign meaning to the C0 control codes
where the meaning is already stable, like TAB and FF.

-- 
John Cowan	http://www.ccil.org/~cowan		cowan@ccil.org
	You tollerday donsk?  N.  You tolkatiff scowegian?  Nn.
	You spigotty anglease?  Nnn.  You phonio saxo?  Nnnn.
		Clear all so!  'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)



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