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From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" <DAGwyn@null.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 (in)security
Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 09:17:44 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B10AAC6.996C5C63@null.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <JNENKONOPMBLIHLMIJEDIEAACBAA.richelbe@richelberger.com>

Richard Elberger wrote:
> ...  Perhaps once it is all catalogued and
> accepted into unicode, 16 bits will not be enough.

16 bits was never enough, and currently the Windows world
is scrambling to change from UCS-2 (old "16-bit Unicode")
to UTF-16, which occasionally uses two 16-bit words for
certain characters.  This is an active topic of discussion
in the WG14 reflector.


  reply	other threads:[~2001-05-29  9:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-05-27  4:27 rob pike
2001-05-27  6:43 ` Richard Elberger
2001-05-29  9:17   ` Douglas A. Gwyn [this message]
2001-06-29  9:23     ` Alex Danilo
2001-06-29 13:57       ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-06-29 21:08         ` Boyd Roberts
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-07-02 18:10 David Gordon Hogan
2001-07-02 19:09 ` Dan Cross
2001-07-02 15:02 Sape Mullender
2001-07-02 15:52 ` Dan Cross
2001-07-02 16:24 ` Sam Ducksworth
2001-07-02 12:01 nigel
2001-07-02 12:05 ` George Michaelson
2001-07-02 12:07 ` rob pike
2001-07-02  1:38 okamoto
2001-07-02  2:03 ` Jim Choate
2001-07-02 11:56   ` rob pike
2001-05-27 15:00 rob pike
2001-05-27  0:52 Russ Cox
2001-05-26 23:02 jmk
2001-05-26 23:22 ` Alexander Viro
2001-05-26 19:54 Mike Haertel
2001-05-26 22:47 ` Alexander Viro
2001-05-26 23:23   ` Mike Haertel
2001-05-27  1:40     ` Alexander Viro
2001-05-28  4:40     ` Lucio De Re

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