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[Python-Dev] Unicode debate
Christopher Petrillipetrilli@amber.org
Thu, 27 Apr 2000 12:48:16 -0400
Guido van Rossum [guido@python.org] wrote:> I've heard a few people claim that strings should always be considered> to contain "characters" and that there should be one character per> string element. I've also heard a clamoring that there should only be> one string type. You folks have never used Asian encodings. In> countries like Japan, China and Korea, encodings are a fact of life,> and the most popular encodings are ASCII supersets that use a variable> number of bytes per character, just like UTF-8. Each country or> language uses different encodings, even though their characters look> mostly the same to western eyes. UTF-8 and Unicode is having a hard> time getting adopted in these countries because most software that> people use deals only with the local encodings. (Sounds familiar?)Actually a bigger concern that we hear from our customers in Japan isthat Unicode has *serious* problems in asian languages. Theey tookthe "unification" of Chinese and Japanese, rather than both, andtherefore can not represent los of phrases quite right. I can havesomeone write up a better dscription, but I was told by severalJapanese people that they wouldn't use Unicode come hell or highwater, basically.Basically it's JJIS, Shift-JIS or nothing for most Japanesecompanies. This was my experience working with Konica a few years ago as well.Chris-- | Christopher Petrilli|petrilli@amber.org
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