Re: UTF-8, OSTA-UDF [why?], Unicode, and miscellaneous gibberish

Alex Belits (abelits@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us)
Mon, 25 Aug 1997 23:47:17 -0700 (PDT)


On 26 Aug 1997, Kai Henningsen wrote:

> > It really wouldn't be so bad if commitees actually worked... This one's
> > not TOO bad as they go. (remember Ada anyone?)
>
> Then again, Ada was run by the US military. What do you expect?
>
> Unicode is run by the big computer corporations.

I like US military way more than those bug computer companies.

> And ISO 10646 is run by
> ISO (which means that the diverse national standards organizations do the
> actual work).

...which really means a group of iso8859-1-native people only.

--
Alex