Re: International business communications and Unicode

Andrew Cunningham scripsit:

> If you look at implimentations of unicode in OS and software, you'll find that 
> linguistic minorities have been even more marginalised.

How has Unicode made this problem worse?  India isn't a marginal market,
but its writing systems are just plain difficult: it's no wonder that
commercial software has plucked the low-hanging fruit.

<plug>Linux does quite a bit better, BTW.</plug>

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Received on Thursday, 23 August 2001 08:27:17 UTC