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On 9/26/2012 2:58 PM, Ian Kelly wrote:

> You know, usually when I see software decried as America-centric, it's
> because it doesn't support Unicode. This must be the first time I've
> seen that label applied to software that dares to *fully* support Unicode.

What is truly bizarre is the idea came from and much or most of the 
implementation was done by Europeans, not Americans.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy