From: John Jenkins (jenkins@apple.com)
Date: Mon Mar 01 2004 - 19:52:38 EST
On Mar 1, 2004, at 3:57 PM, Philippe Verdy wrote:
> There are LOTS of legacy software (not necessarily standard OS or
> office
> software, but also private softwares used in administrations, banks,
> and various
> private organizations, etc...) which are needed today and will need to
> continue
> to work for many years as there's not a lot money to adapt them to
> Unicode
> immediately, but that must be used coherently with a 8-bit charset
> that will
> match the languistic needs.
>
Except that most of that legacy software won't be able to handle a new
part to 8859 any more than it can handle Unicode. It has to be revised
either way. (Granted, the cost of revision is overall less for a new
8859 than for Unicode.)
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