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Subject:Unicode/ISO 10646 From:Steve Fouts <sfouts -at- ELLISON -dot- SC -dot- TI -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 25 Feb 1994 08:37:57 CST
I just got a flyer about a Unicode conference coming up in Tokyo. The
flyer says, "Technical writers may also benefit," from attending. So
far, I know that Unicode is a proposed 16-bit character encoding
standard for information interchange. It would make communication/
data exchange between countries, particularly the Asian and
Pacific-Rim countries, much easier.
Since this is the first that I have heard about it, I thought I would
ask my fellow writer type folks, what do you know about Unicode or
ISO 10646?
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