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Re: [idn] What's wrong with skwan-utf8?
- To: idn@ops.ietf.org
- Subject: Re: [idn] What's wrong with skwan-utf8?
- From: "J. William Semich" <bill@mail.nic.nu>
- Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2001 12:52:54 -0500
- Delivery-date: Wed, 03 Jan 2001 09:55:24 -0800
- Envelope-to: idn-data@psg.com
Yes. Windows 2000 Professional - Multililanguage version.
See:
http://www.microsoft.com/WINDOWS2000/guide/professional/solutions/multilingu
al.asp
"Unicode Support:
Windows 2000 Professional uses Unicode® version 2.1 as its base character
encoding. Unicode is an international standard representing the characters
in common use in the world’s major languages. Unicode allows unambiguous,
plain-text representation of data, which simplifies data sharing in a
mixed-platform environment."
Using UTF-8. Even its text editor (Notepad) is UTF-8 capable.
You asked <smile>.
Bill Semich
At 04:01 PM 1/3/01 +0000, Brian W. Spolarich wrote:
>On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Patrik [iso-8859-1] Fältström wrote:
>
>| Because of these things, I none of the operating systems etc which
>| today use UTF-8 handle this correctly. All of them have to be changed.
>
> Is there an OS out there that actually handles UTF-8 cleanly for the
>entire Unicode repertoire? Sun touts Unicode support (via UTF-8) in
>Solaris, but its still pretty broken.
>
> -bws
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