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<P>[François Pinard]</P>
<P>>>Many people consider that Unicode, or UTF-8 at least, is strongly<BR>>>favouring English (boldly American) over any other script or language.<BR>>>If it has not been so, Americans would never have promoted it so much,<BR>>>and would have rather shown an infinite and eternal reluctance...</P>
<P>To be fair to the developers of Unicode, I'd suggest that the issue is not favoring (note spelling! :) ) English, but rather keeping compatibility with an enormous amount of existing data which was encoded in ASCII. Which was an English standard, but you can only do so much in 7 bits...<BR>As for American reluctance, how are you going to convince anyone to double (at least) the storage requirements for their data, to support languages they never use? That would have cost a great deal of money.<BR></P>
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