Re: Red Hat 8 now uses UTF-8 by default for all non-CJK users

[Radovan Garabik <garabik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 11:12:12AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Followup to:  <BADF3C947A1BD54FBA75C70C241B0B9E10A799@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> By author:    "Maiorana, Jason" <jmaiorana@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> In newsgroup: linux.utf8
> > 
> > They feel that chinese glyphs have as much ho do with japanese as
> > ancient latin does with english
> > 
> 
> Of course, any English speaker would trivially recognize the
> characters that compose ancient Latin, and would unambiguously declare
> them identical to the modern English equivalents.

It depends. Ancient latin script has evolved through the time,
see characters from U+10300 - this has been disunited on purpose
from our modern latin script (but OTOH Fraktur has been not).


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