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Postings from June 2001
Dan Sugalski <dan@sidhe.org> writes: > >It does bring up a deeper issue, however. Unicode is, at the moment, >apparently inadequate to represent at least some part of the asian >languages. Are the encodings currently in use less inadequate? I've been >assuming that an Anything->Unicode translation will be lossless, but this >makes me wonder whether that assumption is correct. One reason perl5.7.1+'s Encode does not do asian encodings yet is that the tables I have found so far (Mainly Unicode 3.0 based) are lossy. -- Nick Ing-Simmons who is looking for a new job see http://www.ni-s.u-net.com/