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RE: Choosing right character representation for i18n issues

To: <linux-utf8@nl.linux.org>
Subject: RE: Choosing right character representation for i18n issues
From: "François Yergeau" <yergeau@ALIS.COM>
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 16:08:56 -0400
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In-Reply-To: <vafbt9omwh0.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de>
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> De: Kai Großjohann
> Date: dimanche 24 octobre 1999 14:43
>
> I've got a certain application in mind and I'm wondering whether using
> UTF-8 as the underlying character representation in that application
> will be the right choice.  The application is full-text search.  What
> I have in mind is to do the following: each document is converted into
> UTF-8 for indexing...

You would do well to read Thierry Sourbier's paper on that subject presented
at the last Unicode conference.  The slides are online at
http://www.unicode.org/unicode/iuc/iuc15/b3/slides.ppt.

--
François Yergeau

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References:
- Choosing right character representation for i18n issues
  - From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann)

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