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Re: What's system attribute "__CF_USER_TEXT_ENCODING"?

> Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 00:41:45 +0100
> From: John Delacour <email@hidden>
> Subject: Re: What's system attribute "__CF_USER_TEXT_ENCODING"?

> At 6:25 am +0800 30/8/02, bill wrote:
>
>> PS : [OT] In the input menu of international preference panel, some keyboard
>> layout9s input menu are Roman, some Central European, while some exotic ones
>> are Unicode, what does it mean?

> 2.
> Enter the Chinese, for whom even 13,000 characters is restricting,
> and they, the Japanese and the Koreans (CJK) each have several
> "two-byte" character sets, which allows them a maximum of about
> 13,600 different characters composed of two bytes.

I couldn't help but notice that the math doesn't quite work out.
If 13,000 characters is "restricting", why not go to 65,536.

The Japanese situation is interesting. Modern Japanese functionally
supports 4 different written scripts: hiragana, katakana, kanji, and
the western roman script. I would not want to have to work at a
Japanese newspaper. ;-)


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