Patrik Faltstrom writes:
At 09.14 94-10-31, Keld J|rn Simonsen wrote:
Well, in that sense, UNICODE has nothing to do with Europe,
you should consider it U.S. as it was invened by a number
of big firms in the USA. I do not think it is of great use in Europe.
8-bit charsets would do most of what is needed for quite some time
to come here. Europe was quite sceptical to it when it was proposed.
We need it in Sweden though, because all characters used in sweden is
not in one of the ISO-8859-series of characters.
So, in sweden we need UNICODE.
So we do in Denmark, when we want to write greek characters, or other
exotic texts. For normal Danish use, email, writing newspapers
and books etc, there is seldom use for more than ISO-8859-1.
I have done quite some work together with Swedes on official Swedish
language needs for characters and I have not seen any requirements
for normal Swedish use exceeding the repertoire of iso-8859-1.
Just for my information, could you give examples of the needs you
are thinking of, Patrik?
Keld