Kenny McCormack wrote:
> In article <1138796202.039877.119300@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> nige1 <guthrie@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> ...
> >Unfortunately, monospace fonts supplied with old-
> >fashioned OS's don't support these international
> >standards. For example, I can't display them all in
> >Courier on my PC (Windows 95).
>
> Yeah, tell it to the Marines.
>
> >In a year or two, however, IMO, almost everyone
> >will adopt these standards.
>
> Maybe on (virus-laden) web sites, in IM, and in web-based chat sites,
but
> not now nor ever on Usenet.
"Nor ever" seems unlikely. Eventually, there will come a time when the
number of users that have platforms that aren't capable of handling
Unicode is small enough not to worry about. But I don't think it will
happen in one or two years.
-- Adam
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