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Re: Unit Scaling Prefixes



At 8:36 AM -0600 4/16/1999, John Trammell wrote:

James McLean <jmclean@CHEM.UCSD.EDU> wrote:

There is a standard, used by a large number of personal computers (what
is it, 5%? 10%?) It's the Apple extended (8-bit) ASCII set, and it's
been around for many years. It doesn't have everything you could
possibly want, but it has a lot of useful characters. And both the
internal representation and the typed key-sequences to access them are
uniform across all applications.

Bah -- those Apple people always do things half-way. Why not use
the 16-bit Unicode standard, with room for the full Latin, Greek,
Hebrew, Arabic, Japanese, and other alphabets, plus symbols?

No sooner said than done. From
<http://www.apple.com/macos/multilingual/WSbackgr.html#anchor5005348>:
"Apple was one of the founding contributors to the Unicode consortium and
is an active participant. Apple plans to provide support for Unicode in
future releases of system software."

Larry