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From: Anonymous on 19 Jan 2006 14:22
> For Japanese? No ASCII for Japanese, only the ugly DBCS.
>
> > Also, I am not bothered about non English characters
>
> Oh, yes, then sorry, you really do not need Unicode.

Why are you going on about Japanese? You are very strange
mate.


From: Maxim S. Shatskih on 19 Jan 2006 14:35
> > Oh, yes, then sorry, you really do not need Unicode.
>
> Why are you going on about Japanese? You are very strange
> mate.

Highly-developed rich country, which wants the software to support their
language.

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StorageCraft Corporation
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From: Anonymous on 19 Jan 2006 17:49
Well, reading your reply it seems you have run out of excuses,
so I won this contest.


From: Ivan Brugiolo [MSFT] on 19 Jan 2006 18:29
One other argument:
On Windows-NT Derivative OSes,
working with `ansi` is a performance hit taken all over the places.
Since the introduction of Microsoft Unicode Layer for Win9x,
Creating `ansi` binaries is just a non-sense.

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<zzz> wrote in message news:%23dMiwqUHGHA.1180(a)TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> Well, reading your reply it seems you have run out of excuses,
> so I won this contest.
>
>


From: Maxim S. Shatskih on 20 Jan 2006 07:42
> Well, reading your reply it seems you have run out of excuses,

Yes, I went from technical to business-related excuses :)

There is a market of localized software, including the Far East versions (yes,
a real-world market, real money). Unicode is a great help there. Thanks to
Microsoft for Unicode-base OS, in fact.

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StorageCraft Corporation
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