Re: LYNX-DEV Re: Lynx updates

[Klaus Weide]

On Mon, 11 Nov 1996, Benjamin C. W. Sittler wrote:

> On Mon, 11 Nov 1996, Wayne Buttles wrote:
> 
> > I went to the unicode consortium page and now I at least know what it is,
> > but could someone clue me in as to the effects of unicode on a
> > character-based terminal application like Lynx?
> 
> Well, for starters we need it to understand four-digit numeric character
> references, and eventually to map as many Unicode characters as it can to
> equivalents in the current display character set. 
> 
> (that's my understanding, anyhow)

Mine, too.

Additionally:  A Unicode representation can be used, internally,
to map between different 8bit character sets.
That would actually be the use of most benefit today, I think..
although it doesn't strictly fall under "Unicode support".

  Klaus

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