Re: Reality check - non-Unicode in Guinea-GTZ documents 2005

From: Andrew West (andrewcwest@gmail.com)
Date: Thu Aug 17 2006 - 03:51:38 CDT

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    On 17/08/06, Doug Ewell <dewell@adelphia.net> wrote:
    >
    > Would you believe there are actually people so misguided that they
    > believe the purpose of Unicode is just the opposite, to *restrict* the
    > number of languages people can use on the Internet and in computers
    > generally?
    >

    Yes, I'd believe that. My experience is that in general most people's
    understanding of Unicode is abysmal, even amongst experienced
    programmers who as a matter of course enable Unicode in all their
    projects.

    Andrew



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