Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Muddiest Point #5
In today's class, Unicode was mentioned as a newer way to represent characters. I have heard that it has become fairly popular. But isn't there an ISO standard as well? In fact, I just looked it up -- ISO 10646? It seems to me that this ISO standard is its own version of Unicode. Am I understanding this correctly, or is it something else entirely?
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Look at this article: http://unicode.org/faq/unicode_iso.html. So you are right that there is an ISO, and it is related to unicode, and they are agreed to sync between them, but as unicode states that unicode have more extension to ISO.
I think that the difference would be relative small, but since ISO is relative stable, and unicode would like to evolve on its own to cope with new situations, we would say the difference. But at some point, I believe that ISO would adopt the popular extension Unicode makes.
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