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Re:Janayugom, a Indian daily newspaper, has migrated complet... by stultus on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @01:30AM (#21511985)
They weren't using Unicode at all. Instead they were using 'prehistoric' fonts patched by changing the glyphs in ASCII fonts(100s of them). This too without proper conventions. They way to convert these to Unicode is by creating character maps in a font-by-font fashion.
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Re:Janayugom, a Indian daily newspaper, has migrated complet... by yorwba on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @09:54AM (#21514538)
ISO 10646 does not work as you describe. I'm pretty sure most of the character encodings defined by creating a custom font were never standardized by ISO.
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