Re: SDATA or UNICODE

MURATA Makoto (murata@apsdc.ksp.fujixerox.co.jp)
Thu, 29 Jan 1998 01:26:12 +0900

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In message "Re: SDATA or UNICODE",
Gavin Nicol wrote...
> As such, you need some
> mechanism allowing people to use "non-standard" characters,
> such as Gaiji, mathematic symbols etc. and to allow systems to
> process them in an interoperable manner.

Probably, it is safe to say that such mechanisms are not for
characters and that they merely handle data for providing some
physical appearance. (I am trying to avoid words such as
glyph, font, zikkei, etc. They are dangerous here.)

Cheers,

Makoto

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