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[jda]

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>>  The majority of my Unicode users are using Hebrew, Arabic, and plain
>>  old accented "European" characters! That includes American/European
>>  users. Japan is at most 10% of the market that needs Unicode. We need
>>  unicode for "the rest of us!!!!!!!!
>
>Hogwash. The second largest, single language software market in the world is
>Japan. You may not be addressing the needs of that market in your own
>products, but that doesn't reflect the software market in general. UTF-16
>doesn't take care of "the rest of us", it takes care of all of us.
>

I'm getting this as a digest (hm, I thought I asked for single email 
mode. Oh well) so I'm late to respond.

Hogwash yourself, Lynn :P. Who cares if it's the second largest 
single language market. It pales next to US + Europe. And UTF-8 takes 
care of all of us, too. I have no idea what you even mean by that 
statement -- at face value it is simply wrong.

Jon