Re: benefits of unicode

From: Tex Texin (texin@progress.com)
Date: Fri Apr 13 2001 - 18:53:31 EDT


Michka,

The fact that a product supports Unicode and does not support another
code
page used in some region, does not mean that the vendor
supports that region, nor does it mean if they decide to support the
region that it would be only with Unicode...

tex

"Michael (michka) Kaplan" wrote:
>
> From: "Tex Texin" <texin@progress.com>
>
> > If I had some examples from IBM, Sun, HP, Unisys, etc. then
> > the benefit would not read like Microsoft is all that matters.
>
> Since there are locales that do not have specific code pages recognized by
> other vendors, I think you already have the proof you are asking for?
>
> I do not see anyone rushing out to provide support for every random code
> page one could dig up if one tried hard enough.... certainly none of the
> vendors you mention.
>
> MichKa
>
> Michael Kaplan
> Trigeminal Software, Inc.
> http://www.trigeminal.com/

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