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Unicode: Languages
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Most modern operating systems support Unicode. Mac OS X and Windows 2000 and XP are Unicode-compliant. Windows NT has limited Unicode support; Mac OS 9 may require the installation of language kits.
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Vietnamese exists in fragments in Unicode, mainly because some characters are ... common to other roman-based languages. To completely represent the Vietnamese character set, the following ranges must be available (example using Microsoft Times New Roman - Unicode):
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This section briefly describes the state of the Unicode support in wxWidgets. Read it if you want to know more about how to write programs able to work with characters from languages other than English.
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There is ... a great benefit for non English programmers using Unicode, because you can program in your native language with all characters, not only the ASCII ones. Well, at least if compiler supports that:)
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[F]ar, it was only said that Unicode is a means to assign a unique number for all characters used by humans in written language. How these numbers are stored in text processing is another matter; problems result from the fact that much software in the west has so far been written to deal with 8-bit character encodings only, and Unicode support has only been added slowly in recent years.
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