From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from weis@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id SAA05026 for caml-red; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 18:13:05 +0100 (MET) Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA04254 for ; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 14:42:41 +0100 (MET) Received: from localhost.localdomain (ppp48.dyn146.pacific.net.au [210.23.146.48]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.10.0) with ESMTP id f0ODgcX07594 for ; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 14:42:39 +0100 (MET) Received: from ozemail.com.au (IDENT:root@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA04653; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 00:41:49 +1100 Message-ID: <3A6EDB9D.415F90F2@ozemail.com.au> Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 00:41:49 +1100 From: John Max Skaller X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.12-20 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pierpaolo BERNARDI CC: OCAML Subject: Re: Unicode (was RE: JIT-compilation for OCaml?) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: weis@pauillac.inria.fr Pierpaolo BERNARDI wrote: > Sorry, no. The idea that "Unicode is 16 bit" is a relic of the > prehistory of Unicode, when it was thought that 64K characters would > suffice. When people talk about Unicode in industry they mean 16 bit code points. -- John (Max) Skaller, mailto:skaller@maxtal.com.au 10/1 Toxteth Rd Glebe NSW 2037 Australia voice: 61-2-9660-0850 checkout Vyper http://Vyper.sourceforge.net download Interscript http://Interscript.sourceforge.net