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[Charles Yeomans]

On Mar 10, 2004, at 6:18 PM, jda wrote:

>>
>>>  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.
>

Apple itself uses UTF-16 in Carbon; are they wrong as well?

Charles Yeomans