Re: Changing character sets in Xy4 [ was Re: TYP and XY3]

[Caballero Carlo.Caballero@xxxxxxxx]

Whatever happened to Unicode?

Carlo Caballero
Carlo.Caballero@xxxxxxxx

On Tue, 1 Feb 2005, Patricia M Godfrey wrote:

> ** Reply to message from: "Robert Holmgren" , 1 Feb
> 2005 18:01:15 -0500
>
> ≪And 1252 is what M$ has defined as the future. That train is pulling
> out of the station very very slowly, maybe intentionally, so that anyone
> can hop on -- but eventually it'll be gone.)≫
>
> Yes, but is it going to some little island (OK, OK, trains aren't much
> good getting to islands)? Back in 10/2003 you wrote:
>
> ≪non-standard Windows-only ANSI 1252 charset (CodePage)≫
>
> And somewhere (but I cannot find it right now) I'm sure you or someone
> said that this was indeed M$-only, and the rest of the civilized world
> used something else. It's bad enough that we're the only place in the
> world (with the exception, last I heard, of Myamnar) that is NOT using
> the metric, or SI, system of measurement. Let's not isolate ourselves
> with some provincial codepage. Or has the rest of the world jumped on the
> M$ train too? If so, OK; much as I love to hate M$, this is an area where
> a universal convention is really needed.
>
> Patricia M. Godfrey
> PMGodfrey@xxxxxxxx
>