[colorforth] unicode and character code history

[Mark Slicker <maslicke@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Some interesting articles on character codes, both from a supporter of the
TRON system, which is an open operating system from Japan.

On Unicode:

http://tronweb.super-nova.co.jp/unicoderevisited.html

   If one considers these characters to be "part of the culture" of each
   country and not just mere "character codes " or "glyphs" inside a
   computer system, then the Unicode project started out on a very
   presumptuous footing. To get a feel of it from the East Asian side, try
   to imagine a group of Japanese publishing houses getting together to
   "unify" the spellings of British and Amercian English words so they
   could save space when printing dictionaries. Imagine further that they
   had invited some British and American English language experts to
   participate in the project and thus lend it legitimacy. What would
   British and American media organizations say about such a project?
   Would they say, "thank you," or would they say, "who asked you to
   unify our cultures for us?""

On character code history:

http://tronweb.super-nova.co.jp/characcodehist.html

I believe TRON uses escape sequences to switch between multiple character
sets, in FML (as I understand it) this could be a blue word which changes
the character set. Of course the specific script would need to be
supported by the FML browser. Multi-lingual support is pretty much a given
for any markup language aimed at the web, this may be good solution to the
problem of multi-lingual text.

Mark

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