Re: Unit Scaling Prefixes

[Larry Smith <Larry.Smith@SNOW.EDU>]

At 8:36 AM -0600 4/16/1999, John Trammell wrote:

> James McLean <jmclean@CHEM.UCSD.EDU> wrote:
>
> > There is a standard, used by a large number of personal computers (what
> > is it, 5%? 10%?)  It's the Apple extended (8-bit) ASCII set, and it's
> > been around for many years.  It doesn't have everything you could
> > possibly want, but it has a lot of useful characters.  And both the
> > internal representation and the typed key-sequences to access them are
> > uniform across all applications.
>
> Bah -- those Apple people always do things half-way.  Why not use
> the 16-bit Unicode standard, with room for the full Latin, Greek,
> Hebrew, Arabic, Japanese, and other alphabets, plus symbols?

No sooner said than done.  From
<http://www.apple.com/macos/multilingual/WSbackgr.html#anchor5005348>:
"Apple was one of the founding contributors to the Unicode consortium and
is an active participant. Apple plans to provide support for Unicode in
future releases of system software."

Larry