From: MagerValp (MagerValp_at_cling.gu.se)
Date: 2003-08-25 16:07:21
>>>>> "RB" == Baltissen, R (Ruud) <ruud.baltissen@abp.nl> writes:
AC> Btw, was there ever an ISO definition for PETSCII? :-)
RB> If I understand this correctly, an ISO definition tells a
RB> program/OS what characterset is used?
Yep.
MV> I believe someone added it to unicode.
RB> Never understood what this was. Someone in for a short
RB> explanation? Thanks.
From http://www.unicode.org/standard/WhatIsUnicode.html
"Unicode provides a unique number for every character, no matter what
the platform, no matter what the program, no matter what the
language."
Instead of having ISO-8859-1, PETSCII, Shift-JIS, and a zillion other
text encoding systems (and corresponding fonts or translation tables),
you use unicode.
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