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[Files] A Unicode implementation for the AmigaANN.lu
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"Ucode implements the Unicode standard for the Amiga. It is freeware, and all the software and glyphs can be used in Amiga applications free of charge. (Unicode is a system for writing all the world's languages, and is required for full implemenation of HTML4, CSS2 and JAVA. It will eventually replace all other text encoding methods)" There's also a set of glyphs for use by this package here.
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A Unicode implementation for the Amiga : Comment 1 of 43ANN.lu
Posted by S. Hakim Hamdani on 25-Mar-2002 13:59 GMT
Well, well, congratulations to that. Some very dedicated person has taken upon him the task of porting Unicode. Over are the days of patches, non-convertible fonts and glyphs. Long live Unicode!
A Unicode implementation for the Amiga : Comment 2 of 43ANN.lu
Posted by Amon_Re on 25-Mar-2002 14:07 GMT
In reply to Comment 1 (S. Hakim Hamdani):
Yes! I'll finally be able to chat properly in #japan! Woohoo!
Long Live Amiga ;)
A Unicode implementation for the Amiga : Comment 3 of 43ANN.lu
Posted by Raffaele on 25-Mar-2002 14:16 GMT
Nice to read that... This is one of the thingies we lack...
You made Goooooooooooooooooooooooooooood work!!!!!!!!!!!
I'll download it pretty soon...
Bye and thanks for this effort you made for our community...
Next big thing is to implement it in OS 4.0C (Classical) or at least 3.9.2 and 4.0PPC...
Bye,
Raffaele
A Unicode implementation for the Amiga : Comment 4 of 43ANN.lu
Posted by Ugr on 25-Mar-2002 14:31 GMT
In reply to Comment 3 (Raffaele):
> Next big thing is to implement it in OS 4.0C (Classical)
> or at least 3.9.2 and 4.0PPC...
You are right. I think Ben Hermans should talk with author of Ucode. In my opinion Unicode should be a part of AmigaOS 4.
Ben, are you going to talk with Ken?
A Unicode implementation for the Amiga : Comment 5 of 43ANN.lu
Posted by Ben Hermans/Hyperion on 25-Mar-2002 15:02 GMT
In reply to Comment 4 (Ugr):
We've got our own guy doing the Unicode support.
I'll contact him and point this out to him.
There was already some limited Unicode support in AmigaOS since many years but it was only very partial.
A Unicode implementation for the Amiga : Comment 6 of 43ANN.lu
Posted by Rik Sweeney on 25-Mar-2002 15:10 GMT
In reply to Comment 5 (Ben Hermans/Hyperion):
"We've got our own guy doing the Unicode support, but I saw this a few minutes ago and promptly sacked him"
I'm only joking. Laugh.
A Unicode implementation for the Amiga : Comment 7 of 43ANN.lu
Posted by Anonymous on 25-Mar-2002 16:41 GMT
In reply to Comment 1 (S. Hakim Hamdani):
This isn't a port, it's an Amiga specific implementation.
A Unicode implementation for the Amiga : Comment 8 of 43ANN.lu
Posted by Anonymous on 25-Mar-2002 16:42 GMT
In reply to Comment 5 (Ben Hermans/Hyperion):
This implementation is written entirely in 68k assembler, so
I wouldn't get too excited about it's potential for inclusion
in OS4.0.
A Unicode implementation for the Amiga : Comment 9 of 43ANN.lu
Posted by Don Cox on 25-Mar-2002 17:05 GMT
In reply to Comment 5 (Ben Hermans/Hyperion):
Pagestream has had Unicode support for several years.
A Unicode implementation for the Amiga : Comment 10 of 43ANN.lu
Posted by exie on 25-Mar-2002 18:09 GMT
REALLY
so why I cant write in czech using T1 or even TT fonts?
A Unicode implementation for the Amiga : Comment 11 of 43ANN.lu
Posted by Anonymous on 25-Mar-2002 18:21 GMT
In reply to Comment 10 (exie):
Hermans is talking about the fact that AmigaOS utilises
the ISO 8859 Set 1 character set (ie. defacto 8 bit ASCII).
A Unicode implementation for the Amiga : Comment 12 of 43ANN.lu
Posted by Raffaele on 25-Mar-2002 19:22 GMT
In reply to Comment 10 (exie):
I wonder you don't use fonts modified to Unicode but old T1 TT fonts...
but as I said... I only wonder it...
Indeed is nice to know that PageStream has support to Unicode!
I suggest to all parts in cause to support Unicode in new OSes but keep compatibility with ANSI-ASCII (just to use old software as long as possible)...
Bye,
Raffaele
A Unicode implementation for the Amiga : Comment 13 of 43ANN.lu
Posted by Anonymous on 25-Mar-2002 19:48 GMT
In reply to Comment 12 (Raffaele):
<keeping ASCII compatability>
That's one of the strengths of Unicode -- it's compatible
with the 8 bit character set that AmigaOS currently uses.
A Unicode implementation for the Amiga : Comment 14 of 43ANN.lu
Posted by Amigan Software on 25-Mar-2002 21:17 GMT
"It will eventually replace all other text encoding methods"
I think not. The current 8-bit extended ASCII has all glyphs required for European languages.
Supporting Japanese, Arabic etc. language is not important, these will eventually switch to English anyway, we should not do anything to delay that.
Using 2 bytes per character is wasteful.
A Unicode implementation for the Amiga : Comment 15 of 43ANN.lu
Posted by cOrpse on 25-Mar-2002 21:39 GMT
In reply to Comment 14 (Amigan Software):
YEAH ! we speak english so they have to ! its only right
LOL !
A Unicode implementation for the Amiga : Comment 16 of 43ANN.lu
Posted by CnlPepper on 25-Mar-2002 21:43 GMT
In reply to Comment 14 (Amigan Software):
"Supporting Japanese, Arabic etc. language is not important, these will eventually switch to English anyway, we should not do anything to delay that."
Um...no.
What a stupid statement.
CnlPepper - English is but one language....
A Unicode implementation for the Amiga : Comment 17 of 43ANN.lu
Posted by Alkis Tsapanidis on 25-Mar-2002 22:01 GMT
In reply to Comment 14 (Amigan Software):
It doesn't... What? Greece is not a European country?
You need a specially extended ascii set to see greek.
A Unicode implementation for the Amiga : Comment 18 of 43ANN.lu
Posted by Anonymous on 25-Mar-2002 23:45 GMT
In reply to Comment 14 (Amigan Software):
Oh look! A fucking Yank!
"You will obey the law of the white man, for we are 733t"
I hate Americans and people wonder why.
A Unicode implementation for the Amiga : Comment 19 of 43ANN.lu
Posted by Dagon HELLAS on 26-Mar-2002 01:40 GMT
In reply to Comment 17 (Alkis Tsapanidis):
he said...
---
I think not. The current 8-bit extended ASCII has all glyphs required for European languages.
---
which includes greek :) after all 16 letters of the latin characters are greek :P the only mistake he made is that he says glyphs, European languages do not have glyphs but only letters.
A Unicode implementation for the Amiga : Comment 20 of 43ANN.lu
Posted by Amigan Software on 26-Mar-2002 03:21 GMT
In reply to Comment 18 (Anonymous):
I'm not American.
I wasn't aware of the Greek issue, however I will amend my statement to read "most European languages".
And it is quite apparent that the world is switching to English, this is already happening. The Amiga community would be better to focus its efforts on writing 680x0-to-C decompilers; these are needed by the Amiga developer community now, and will be in greater demand when OS4.0 is released.
A Unicode implementation for the Amiga : Comment 21 of 43ANN.lu
Posted by PL on 26-Mar-2002 06:47 GMT
In reply to Comment 17 (Alkis Tsapanidis):
> You need a specially extended ascii set to see greek.
We need extended ASCII set to see Polish. Unicode is very important feature for us.
A Unicode implementation for the Amiga : Comment 22 of 43ANN.lu
Posted by Raffaele on 26-Mar-2002 09:08 GMT
In reply to Comment 19 (Dagon HELLAS):
Assalam Aleichum people...
Hum, this peace greeting in Arab, doesn't sound well using Roman characters,
Bah... a minimal problem, let's continue...
Mr. Hellas said:
>---
>I think not. The current 8-bit extended ASCII has all glyphs required for >European languages.
>---
>which includes greek :) after all 16 letters of the latin characters are
>greek :P the only mistake he made is that he says glyphs, European languages
>do not have glyphs but only letters.
Yeah. You're right, and first these are all letters from Phoenician which was not an european language.
Just to remember what we all owe to that Semitic ancient people.
But please Mr. Hellas, don't give that poor fella any chanche...
He is only but a pepole with a 8 bit (not extended) character set implemented in his brain...
Sayonara...
(Hum... I really deserve Unicode to write japanese, Romaji does't not fit properly)
Raffaele
P.S.
Hum... there are really things that we can't do with an 8 bit charset (ISO ANSI ASCII 0U)
¿Como estas?
Straße
Yes, these things can be done with (Roman-8 8U), but... I dunno how the Slavic European can write properly in their languages using this poor character set as Exie and PL intelligently said, or how can write properly in their language European Jews, or the (CEE future coming) European Turkish.... (Where are you Sinan???)
PP.SS. And about the statement:
>And it is quite apparent that the world is switching to English,
>this is already happening
Wrong... or maybe localize a program will not be such an essential point in the computer marketing strategy as it is...
For example think the fact that words such "megabyte" doesn't exist in other languages... in France they talk of MegaOCTETS (Byte == Octet).
English is only but a bridge language, yes the first global language, but it is used only by bridge some gaps when direct translations are not possible and to transfer informations when in an international environment.
World is a place full of languages and dialects but it is more filled by jargonism languages than you can imagine...
When we talk about "Guru Meditation" we use an english based word (made by an indian and a latin word [or at least greek word, I dunno]) but we are all speaking "Amigan" and it is hard for other people to understand us if they don't learn "amigan" first.
Regarding Internet... Internet in facts is giving us the flexibility to navigate thru info pages made for our specifical languages (and for example I can navigate for days into italian related pages without encouter english language [except for words like "byte" or "sport" for example]) and the freedom of use english into pages like Amiga Network News when it is necessary to communicate with people of different nations in spite of their natural language...
...But, it is a place which divides-splits world into a zillion different jargonized sub-cultures...
A Unicode implementation for the Amiga : Comment 23 of 43ANN.lu
Posted by Raffaele on 26-Mar-2002 10:29 GMT
By the way:
And I am calling all AmigaOS and MorphOS developers...
Now we have Unicode support on the Amiga... but...
...Are you building native IVP6 in your Amiga TCP-IP Stacks???
This will be important within 2 years...
It has been calculated that in the early 2005 Internet IVP4 will collapse due to exhausting...
At least if Big Ones will not free the reservations they made for theirselves.
(You know about that... companies such M$ reserved for itself over a milliard addresses on WWW and they claim it is only to allow future expansions)
MickeySoft doesn't want to release a IVP6 patch for Windoz '95 & '98 just to force users to buy it's e-XP-resso Coffee... you know why...
But regarding AmigaONE - Pegasos...
I (as a customer) don't want to buy a computer with an outdated OS internet system...
Understood?
Bye,
Raffaele
A Unicode implementation for the Amiga : Comment 24 of 43ANN.lu
Posted by Anonymous on 26-Mar-2002 10:31 GMT
In reply to Comment 22 (Raffaele):
The civilized NATO world switches to english and the terrorist states
will have klingon as common language, right? >:-D
>For example think the fact that words such "megabyte" doesn't exist in
>other languages... in France they talk of MegaOCTETS (Byte == Octet).
Oh yes, the French are very picky about conserving their language.
A Unicode implementation for the Amiga : Comment 25 of 43ANN.lu
Posted by Ole-Egil Hvitmyren on 26-Mar-2002 11:08 GMT
In reply to Comment 24 (Anonymous):
On the other hand, "octet" actually means something (8 smaller units grouped together) while "byte" is just a buzzword. I know which I would prefer if I were french. KILL ALL BUZZWORDS NOW! :)
Myself, I'm trying to learn japanese. Why? Well, english only gets you that far, you know? Norwegian and swedish aren't all that much used at all, and chinese is too complex. Cannot be bothered with spanish, will take french later and I know a fair bit of german. For a list of the most common languages in the world try: http://hem.passagen.se/zein/loglottos/00002_01.html
Yes. English is the second most used language in the world. But there is a factor 2.5 up to the most used language, so I would be a BIT more careful if I was an english speaker. No, you are not going to save the rest of us from the evils of foreign (to you) languages. You are merely boring :)
A Unicode implementation for the Amiga : Comment 26 of 43ANN.lu
Posted by Alkis Tsapanidis on 26-Mar-2002 11:53 GMT
In reply to Comment 25 (Ole-Egil Hvitmyren):
Learn Greek! :-)
A Unicode implementation for the Amiga : Comment 27 of 43ANN.lu
Posted by Budda on 26-Mar-2002 11:54 GMT
Why doesn't everybody just make effort to learn English and save poor developers time and effort with silly standards. :o) There's no need for all this gobbledegook languages around the world, it just wastes peoples time when they have to learn English as a 2nd language...
A Unicode implementation for the Amiga : Comment 28 of 43ANN.lu
Posted by Alkis Tsapanidis on 26-Mar-2002 11:59 GMT
In reply to Comment 22 (Raffaele):
They are BASED on Phoenician, like Latin is based on the Greek alphabet:)
They are not the same:)
I believe that people like that guy, should burn in hell... That's where
they belong. A language disappearing == a way of life disappearing and a
nation been accumulated to the American way of life. Everyone has the RIGHT
to live they way he wants and to speak the language he wants...
A Unicode implementation for the Amiga : Comment 29 of 43ANN.lu
Posted by Raffaele on 26-Mar-2002 12:39 GMT
In reply to Comment 24 (Anonymous):
An anonymous coward wrote:
>The civilized NATO world switches to english and
>the terrorist states will have klingon as common language,
>right? >:-D
NATO is not a civlized thing...
USA give a lot of money to convince some italian parties to join the NATO even by boycotting italian elections in the '50...
Yes, Italy received protection from NATO against the Warsaw Pact, but Italy gains no respect in being a faithful allied in the NATO...
Nor in all those years of alliance,
Nor during all peace missions Italy joined in those year under the high patronage of the ONU...
(Patrolling Sinai's Gulf in the Red Sea after Arab-Israel War in latest '60 for example, patrolling the Sinai's desert, in Cyprus, in saving Vietnamese boat people),
Nor in Lebanon,
Nor in the War of the Gulf, when General Swartzkopf made humor and joking about our take part in the alliance against Saddam Hussein, for we share with the allies only 16 aircrafts...
(...Yes, we had such a great war budget you can imagine but no one is allowed to made humor about that, when we strongly helped American Young Pilots during war missions... ...or upon our Parliament debate to continue or not supporting direct operations)
Nor even in the Yugoslavian wars, when allied aircrafts drops unused bombs into italian lakes,
And finally not in all these years in which we allow use of the italian airports to USA operations for all their surgery war operations...
And by the way:
Do you remember the Ustica massacre (27 jun 1980)?
81 persons died after the civilian aircraft where they seated was shooted down by a unknown missile!!!
There are strong hypotheses that there was guilty of a NATO attempt to kill Lybic Colonel Gheddafi, and the NATO pilots mistakenly shooted upon the italian civilian aircraft instead of that one of Gheddafi....
And does anyone remember the incident on Mount Cermis (3 feb 1998) when 17 people died due to the shearing of a cableway caused by a stupid fly NOE (Nap Of the Earth) joke made by USAF pilots???
Pilots were judged by an USA court and not by an international NATO court and declared "not guilty" even if they had canceled tapes of the recording of the flight...
This will be enough for me to re-negotiate all NATO treaties from the beginning!
This must be Italy's side point...
We can remain allies only on equal bases... or this means there is not an alliance anymore and it is taking place a domination.
But the italian government decided to stay faithfu** to the alliance...
And keeping alive all my mourning for the American People suffering for the tragedy of Twin Towers I yet dislike the partecipation of Italy in the Afghanistan bombing for all those facts I mention above...
(despite the fact that the italian forces arrived too late this time)
...and for I suspect Bin Laden really is a CIA agent sended there to transfer all the guilt to talibans (who were certainly guilty of other misfits).
Bin Laden is INMHO a scarecrow made by CIA to justify the climate of continuous war the USA ESTABLISHMENT (NOT THE PEOPLE OF USA) needs to allow war industry to stay alive and prevent recession...
But that is only my thinking...
Bye,
Raffaele
A Unicode implementation for the Amiga : Comment 30 of 43ANN.lu
Posted by Raffaele on 26-Mar-2002 14:59 GMT
In reply to Comment 29 (Raffaele):
Excuse me, I was completrely off topic...
But I give vent to my anger, due to all this intolerance, racism and hypocrisy....
This is more intolerable from Amigan users who knows which means to being object of defamation and suffer from being apartheided from other system (so defined) standars...
Bye,
Raf
P.S.
and I hate all this people which made such attempts to move attention of readers away from good news about the Amiga community and to divert it to stupid, silly arguments... or to start anger flames... just to hide real Amiga new goals...
A Unicode implementation for the Amiga : Comment 31 of 43ANN.lu
Posted by S. Hakim Hamdani on 26-Mar-2002 17:33 GMT
In reply to Comment 30 (Raffaele):
Dear All!
I think, personally, that the current implementation of Unicode via a specific library system as done by our dedicated friend above is one of the most useful things that has happened to us lately.
I urge everyone to consider that we live in a multicultural world (yeah!) and that it is important for everyone to be able to employ computer systems in whichever language they choose. I myself speak German, English, French, Polish, Armenian and Afghan and in its current state, OS3.9 doesn't make life too easy for me.
Also it should be considered that English employs a very limited writing system, with its only 26 letters. In Afghan we have 32, in Armenian 38, in German 30 (counting Umlaute and the sharp ss) etc.. I am glad that with the inclusion of the above Unicode library life becomes a lot easier for me and my fellow "foreigners".
It is also very nice to hear that the boys over at Hyperion (in BELGIUM, for all you critics of unicode!Yes, they speak Flamish and French there!) are incorporating Unicode support into OS 4.0 . At the moment, it is virtually impossible for me to employ Afghan fonts (which exist in abundance on other systems), Armenian I can only type using screwed up keyboard layouts (but thanks to the ttf.library nonetheless), Polish (dzie,ki boz*e) is available from the system. But still, the situation becomes a lot easier when you don't have to learn new shortcuts for every font etc..
I fully support the notion that Unicode is as important to the electronic world as is milk to cheese. ;-) (what an analogy). Please be considerate and don't fall back into "imperialist" thinking. I mean, youjust can't write some things with English letters.
Thank you, dear dedicated folks at hyperion and the author of the current unicode implement.
Hakim out.
A Unicode implementation for the Amiga : Comment 32 of 43ANN.lu
Posted by Ole-Egil Hvitmyren on 26-Mar-2002 18:59 GMT
In reply to Comment 26 (Alkis Tsapanidis):
Make me an offer I can't refuse, then?
No, sorry. That's italian... ;)
A Unicode implementation for the Amiga : Comment 33 of 43ANN.lu
Posted by Budda on 26-Mar-2002 21:40 GMT
Changing the subject away for people arguing about languages...
The author of the ucode archive must be living in a time warp - has anybody seen the "loverly" OS1.3 style icons he has used? :-)
A Unicode implementation for the Amiga : Comment 34 of 43ANN.lu
Posted by Amigan Software on 27-Mar-2002 01:17 GMT
"Also it should be considered that English employs a very limited writing system, with its only 26 letters. In Afghan we have 32, in Armenian 38, in German 30 (counting Umlaute and the sharp ss) etc.. "
Exactly. This shows that English is more efficient. It's Unicode support and other useless crap like that that contribute to Windoze being bloatware.
"Yes. English is the second most used language in the world. But there is a factor 2.5 up to the most used language, so I would be a BIT more careful if I was an english speaker."
Yes but these billion smelly slap-dungs don't count, they are economically, culturally and racially inferior, and anyway what is relevant is the relative language distribution among Amiga users. There are very few Amigans from such regions.
A Unicode implementation for the Amiga : Comment 35 of 43ANN.lu
Posted by Iggy Drougge on 27-Mar-2002 02:21 GMT
In reply to Comment 34 (Amigan Software):
If you haven't already noticed, the Amiga has been moving eastward for the last ten years. And when it crossed the German border into Poland, a smelly kettle of fish was opened. A little later, when the Amiga spread into Russia, once again the limitations of the current text representation in AmigaOS became apparent.
And don't you think it's a bit sad that the Amiga has a foothold amounting to zero in Japan? I want all those pornographic undressing programs and Pokemons running around on my windows! ;-)
As for culture, you're right in a sense, but only in a sense. Hollywood isn't culturally superior to anything, nor is MTV. =þ
You wouldn't use a system in a foreign language, would you? Well, neither would I or anyone else. That's a sad excuse of a system which hasn't yet left the ßeta stage.
But I know you're just trolling, so you're excused. If anything, your flame has only made the demand for Unicode even more apparent. ^_-
A Unicode implementation for the Amiga : Comment 36 of 43ANN.lu
Posted by Iggy Drougge on 27-Mar-2002 02:25 GMT
In reply to Comment 11 (Anonymous):
Actually, I don't think he was referring to that at all. I'm not familiar with the exact implementation of Unicode (due to lack of Amiga support ;-), but I could very well imagine that the eighth bit would trigger 16-bit encoding, as with the current national 16-bit charsets (JIS, EUC, BIG5, and so on).
What I think Ben was referring to is bullet.library, which operates with Unicode at the API level. Commodore had some good ideas (3.2 was supposed to have Japanese support), only not enough time and resources to finish off what they started.
A Unicode implementation for the Amiga : Comment 37 of 43ANN.lu
Posted by Anonymous on 27-Mar-2002 09:31 GMT
In reply to Comment 36 (Iggy Drougge):
What you just said was the long version of what I said :-)
The bottom line is, if AmigaOS didn't currently use ISO 9959
character set 1, the conversion to Unicode would be so much more
painful.
A Unicode implementation for the Amiga : Comment 38 of 43ANN.lu
Posted by Alkis Tsapanidis on 27-Mar-2002 12:54 GMT
In reply to Comment 34 (Amigan Software):
Exactly. This shows that English is more efficient. It's Unicode support and other useless crap like that that contribute to Windoze being bloatware.
Yeah sure...
Exactly. This shows that English is more efficient. It's Unicode support and other useless crap like that that contribute to Windoze being bloatware.
main()
{
char one[]"I see no smily/0";
BOOL veryfyoneFALSE;
two[]"I see no <sarcasm> </sarcasm>, <joke> </joke> or anything like that/0"
BOOL verifytwoFALSE;
three[]"I notice some racism..../0"
BOOL verifythreeFALSE;
veryfyall();
if ((verifyone == TRUE) && (verifytwo == TRUE) && (verifythree == TRUE))
{
printf("FOAD\n"
} else {
printf("sorry\n");
}
Budda had a nice flat smily. You didn't say that you're joking...
A Unicode implementation for the Amiga : Comment 39 of 43ANN.lu
Posted by Alkis Tsapanidis on 27-Mar-2002 13:19 GMT
In reply to Comment 38 (Alkis Tsapanidis):
The the bool values should be changed to true if you mean, or verify
whatever is a string:) No user input whatsoever:)
A Unicode implementation for the Amiga : Comment 40 of 43ANN.lu
Posted by Phill on 27-Mar-2002 14:58 GMT
In reply to Comment 39 (Alkis Tsapanidis):
Don't worry, there are many reasons why that won't compile.
I can't even work out what it was meant to do...
#include <stdio.h>
int main( int argc, char *argv[] )
{
for( ;; )
{
printf( "xenophobics are boring\n" );
}
}
Phill
A Unicode implementation for the Amiga : Comment 41 of 43ANN.lu
Posted by Alkis Tsapanidis on 27-Mar-2002 20:18 GMT
In reply to Comment 40 (Phill):
It wasn't a real program. It wasn't supposed to be compiled....
I just got completely pissed off by such a comment...
He could be joking but the tone he used was quite serious...
A Unicode implementation for the Amiga : Comment 42 of 43ANN.lu
Posted by urashimatarou on 28-Mar-2002 03:47 GMT
In reply to Comment 34 (Amigan Software):
>Exactly. This shows that English is more efficient. It's Unicode support and >other useless crap like that that contribute to Windoze being bloatware.
Oh yeah? So a 2 letters alphabet would be VERY efficient and we'd all speak binary? Great theory my friend...
>Yes but these billion smelly slap-dungs don't count, they are economically, >culturally and racially inferior, and anyway what is relevant is the relative >language distribution among Amiga users. There are very few Amigans from such >regions.
How can you judge what's right about our economy and what makes them inferior in this field?
About culture, I bet you don't know much about yours and no culture is inferior to another. A culture IS. Period.
(As a funny note, some primitive cultures, full of low intelligent people from your point of view, show a knowledge far above you will ever know)
How can you judge a "race" as being inferior? Please tell me how do you define race and inferiority. Ethnical difference is not separate races to me. So to my eyes you included yourself in this inferior rare... We're in 2002 and should speak about mankind not miserable racial and racist idea. We should respect each other culture, language, etc.. Trying to convert was good for Christians several centuries ago... Or let's format everyone.. Same colour, same language, same clothes, same hobbies... What an exciting world..
I want unicode because i love to see writing as it is intended to be. I want to be able to read and write the 1945 official kanji in Japanese on my Amiga. Japanese.. What a non efficient language to your eyes.. 130 million people seem to get away with it... So maybe you're "race's" superior brain is too lazy for that? How sad.
So go play with your efficient AmigaOS... But don't forget to say no to AHI, true type, intellifont, cybergrafX and so on... It's so bloatware...
Maybe there are few Amiga users from non-English countries (Didn't know Germany, Italy and France for example were English speaking countries).. But it seems you don't want new users at all but some close to your little English world...
Maybe soon the first KKK page from you with a "made on Amiga" banner?
A Unicode implementation for the Amiga : Comment 43 of 43ANN.lu
Posted by Alkis Tsapanidis on 28-Mar-2002 12:57 GMT
In reply to Comment 42 (urashimatarou):
Well, don't even bother to explain anything to that guy...
I'M SICK OF HIM!!
There are enough Amiga users here in Greece... Unicode will "save"
us as we won't have to change fonts everytime we want to read
-for example- Deutsch... The 8bit Greek ASCII set, just contains
Greek and English characters.
And about inferiority... If he was so smart he would know that
if the ancient Egyptians, Greeks, Phoenices etc didn't exist, he
would still live on a tree eating bananas.... DOH! Without Ancient
greek and the phoenic alphabet, Latin wouldn't exist!
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