[KLUG Members] Meeting 2004-08-10 - UTF-8

[listserv at kalamazoolinux.org]

UNIX began in Bell Labs in 1969. It used ANSI's six year-old, 7-bit
character encoding, with over 150 official extended alphabets, called
ASCII. In 1992, the X/Open committee tried to bring the 31-bit Unicode
standard to Unix without requiring 32-bit chars and remaining backwards
compatible with ASCII. We will show how UTF-8 and ASCII each work,
compare their limitations, and show how to make programs use the new
Unicode standard. 

Our presenter:

Peter Buxton has been using Linux since 1998. He has a special passion
for the odd facts of history, including computing history, and in making
things work in ways no normal person would try. 

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Coming to three meetings qualifies you as a full member of KLUG, 
meaning that you can participate in the process of making formal 
decisions, including voting for officers.

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The meeting is 7:00 PM THIS TUESDAY at:
The Kalamazoo Chamber of Commerce in beautiful downtown Kalamazoo.
Maps, directions and more info can be found on the KLUG web site:

    http://www.kalamazoolinux.org/

Everyone is welcome, and there is no cost to attend!

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