From: Christopher Fynn (cfynn@gmx.net)
Date: Wed Jan 19 2005 - 17:31:05 CST
Hans Aberg wrote:
...
> My guess is that all that fits into a computer will be binary numbers and
> transformations thereof. If you know of a counter example, please let me
> know. But the point of computers seems also to be that humans can associate
> these binary numbers with various human understandable structures. I believe
> the point of Unicode is that one associates characters with the Unicode
> numbers. So a CPBTF-8 would be transformation where the code points are not
> thought to be associated with the Unicode characters, whereas I believe the
> point with Unicode is that one does associate Unicode numbers with
> characters.
>
> Hans Aberg
If that's so, discussion of this CPBTF-8 is out of scope on this list.
- chris
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