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[jda]

>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?
>

I don't get your point. Lynn implied that UTF-8 wasn't as good as 
UTF-16 at handling Japanese. That is wrong.

Jon