RE: What is "Unicode" in Chinese?

From: Hohberger, Clive (CHohberger@zebra.com)
Date: Tue Jul 25 2000 - 10:09:46 EDT


> ----Original Message-----
> From: Kenneth Whistler [SMTP:kenw@sybase.com]
> Sent: Monday, July 24, 2000 4:06 PM
> To: Unicode List
> Cc: unicode@unicode.org; lcollins@apple.com
> Subject: RE: What is "Unicode" in Chinese?
>
> Ed asked:
>
> >
> > Would it be appropriate to look at the title of GB-13000, which is
> ISO/IEC
> > 10646-1 in China?
> >
>
> Probably not, since it is a national version of 10646, and not of Unicode.
>
> It is, at any rate: Xinxi jishu -- Tongyong duobawei bianma zifuji (UCS),
> i.e.
> "Information technology -- Universal multiple-octet coded character set
> (UCS)"
>
> --Ken
[Hohberger, Clive]
GB-13000 probably has a cross-reference to Unicode 1.0/2.0 or the
Unicode Consortium. I checked ISO 10646-; it has one in Annex L.
on P 751.
Clive



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