Re: But E0000 Custom Language Tags Are Actually *Required* For Use By Unicode

From: Peter Kirk (peterkirk@qaya.org)
Date: Sat Mar 05 2005 - 08:29:06 CST

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    On 05/03/2005 13:19, Marion Gunn wrote:

    >Was it a DEC-20?
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    No, I don't think so. It was either a cheap micro, or it may in fact
    have been a printer's character set.

    Of course Unicode also has its own italic characters, U+1D434 to
    U+1D467, but these are not intended for general purpose use.

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    >>Not quite true. One computer I worked with probably in the 1980's, I
    >>forget which, had an 8-bit character set consisting of a standard ASCII
    >>or similar set in the lower 128 code points and a full set of italic
    >>equivalents in the upper 128.
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    >>--
    >>Peter Kirk
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