Re: [idn] UNIX moving to UTF-8

["J. William Semich" <bill@mail.nic.nu>]

Microsoft is moving UNICODE/UTF-8 into many other of its applications and
systems, and not just Exchange and IE:

FROM http://www.microsoft.com/Office/ORK/2000/Five/70ct_15.htm

The Microsoft Office 2000 MultiLanguage Pack includes plug-in language
features that allow users to change the language of the user interface.
When you use Office Web features in an international environment, you can
do the following:

Conduct Web Discussions in any available language 
All collaboration data is sent over the wire in Universal Character Set
Transformation Format 8-bit (UTF-8). UTF-8 is an ISO standard for
transmitting character codes for all languages.
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FROM http://www.microsoft.com/TechNet/win2000/dnsover.asp

Unicode character support. While conventional DNS server implementations
limit allowed characters to the set described in RFC 1123, this
implementation of DNS accommodates a wider range of characters—including
the UTF-8 character encoding (RFC 2044), a superset of ASCII and a
translation of the UCS-2 (or Unicode) character encoding. This saves
administrators the chore of renaming devices using a non-strict set of
characters on a machine-by-machine basis. 
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FROM http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/psdk/winui/richedit_9d80.htm

Rich Edit 3.0 includes the following features in addition to the features
provided by Rich Edit 2.0. 
...
UTF-8 RTF 
This is recommended for cutting, copying, and pasting operations. This file
format is more compact than ordinary RTF, faster, and compatible with
Unicode. 

And many more ....

Bill Semich

At 08:28 PM 1/25/01 -0800, Carl S. Gutekunst wrote:
>>  - Windows 2000 and CE use Unicode and UTF-8
>
>Again, the native character set of Windows 2000 is UCS-2, not UTF-8. There
are
>a few applications that partially support UTF-8, notably Internet Explorer
and
>Outlook Express, but that's only in some places, and only because a developer
>made a conscious decision to offer that support. Run-of-the-mill Windows APIs
>do not support UTF-8 and will not reliably pass it without damage.
>
><csg>
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Bill Semich
President and Founder
WorldNames, Inc.
http://www.worldnames.net
bsemich@worldnames.net