On Sun, 4 Jul 1999, Curtis Clark wrote:
> 3. Unicode, it is said, is a plain text standard.
>
> (2) and (3) seem to be at odds, unless programs that display plain text
> become a lot more sophisticated.
Yes! Don't consider simple scripts like Latin only. If one likes to have
plain text Arabic, what should he do? He needs sofisticated software to
do that. Unicode is there for all scripts. When it sees that some
processing is needed for scripts like Arabic or Devanagari, it allows some
processing for scripts like Latin, to solve ambiguities etc.
--Roozbeh
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