Re: wide vs. complex characters

[Robert Brady]

On Sun, 15 Oct 2000, Neil Zanella wrote:

> You must be right. I was wondering how a 16-bit code with 2^16 =
> 65536 would be enough to accomodate all those symbols. By the way,
> I tried browsing the Unicode symbols on Solaris 5.7 but I did
> not see any characters displayed on my screen other than the
> ASCII ones. Do you know of a way to browse Unicode symbols on
> some platform?

Try http://charts.unicode.org/

Also, I'd suggest looking at <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html>

> Has unicode been fully implemented anywhere yet?

Depending on what you mean, the answer varies between "yes, certainly",
and "no, of course not!"

-- 
Robert