The relation between Unicode and ISO/IEC 10646

From: Jony Rosenne (rosennej@qsm.co.il)
Date: Tue Aug 12 2003 - 07:20:28 EDT

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    As far as I know, there are many topics not covered by ISO, for example
    bi-directional behavior.

    Jony

    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org
    > [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org] On Behalf Of souravm
    > Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 8:40 AM
    > To: unicode
    > Subject: SPAM: The relation between Unicode and ISO/IEC 10646
    >
    >
    >
    > Hi All,
    >
    > As I know, historically ISO/IEC 10646 (UCS) is from ISO and
    > Unicode was defined by a consortium of major American
    > computer manufacturers. From version 1.1 on, Unicode is
    > scrupulously kept compatible with ISO/IEC 10646 and its
    > extensions. The latest fact I found that Unicode 4.0
    > character repertoire corresponds to ISO/IEC 10646:2003.
    >
    > Also I understand that from Unicode 2.0 onwards Unicode
    > covers all the code points of UCS-4. Now, my doubt is, in the
    > current situation,
    > - What is the need for continuing both of these two different
    > coded character sets in parallel? Why can't they be merged?
    > - Is there any additional issues/points taken care of by
    > ISO/IEC 10646:2003 which are not there in Unicode 4.0 and vice versa ?
    >
    >
    > Any funda on this will be really appreciated.
    >
    > Regards,
    > Sourav
    >
    >
    >



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