- From: Andrew Cunningham <andrewc@mail.vicnet.net.au>
- Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 09:19:28 +1000
- To: <webmaster@befrienders.org>, <www-international@w3.org>
At 03:36 PM 8/23/01 +0100, Eric Jarvis wrote: >-----Original Message----- >From: www-international-request@w3.org >[mailto:www-international-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of Andrew >Cunningham >Sent: 23 August 2001 14:00 >To: John Cowan >Cc: Andrew Cunningham; Thierry Sourbier; www-international@w3.org >Subject: Re: International business communications and Unicode > >> Quoting John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>: >> >> > >> > <plug>Linux does quite a bit better, BTW.</plug> >> > >> >> my personal hope is that linux will evolve in a way that will >break >> our current reliance on microosft for multilingual computing. > >as somebody trying to run a site in 15 languages (and growing)...it >is my fervent hope that whatever evolves will stick to a single >globally applied standard...I don't care who provides it...I would >like to be able to know that a single form of character encoding >will work for any language AND will be able to be read by all users >with their standard set up > YEP >it seems to be a long way off > unfortunately
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