Re: "Universal Character Set"

From: John Hudson (john@tiro.ca)
Date: Sat Feb 17 2007 - 17:35:45 CST

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In my admitedly limited experience, 'Universal Character Set' and 'UCS' seem to be terms
more commonly used by people who come at this project from the WG2 (i.e. ISO 10646) side
of things. Since Unicode not just the character set but also 'imposes additional
constraints on implementations to ensure that they treat characters uniformly across
platforms and applications', it isn't surprising that developers and even end users make
more common reference to 'Unicode', since that is in practical terms how they encounter
the UCS.

John Hudson

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