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From: peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva)
Subject: Re: multibyte character representations and Unicode
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References: <721993836.11625@minster.york.ac.uk> <1992Nov23.193620.9513@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 18:26:37 GMT
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In article <1992Nov23.193620.9513@fcom.cc.utah.edu> terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes:
> While your disk space wouldn "disappear", it would be halved, unless you
> mixed storage of Unicode and ASCII on the same disk.
What, even for code?
> This isn't really Unicode unless it follows Unicode encoding,
Which it does.
> and it lacks
> the ability to provide a fixed size per symbol storage mechanism,
Why do you want one?
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