Jim Penny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I would venture to guess that even with a perfect oracle, it would be > essentially imposible to reverse engineer the Unicode data files, much > less the ancillary algorithms. That is, a 32 bit search space with at > least 36 properties to be discovered per data point is whopping big.
That's irrelevant. The *implementation* of the standard is not copying, even if you had to read the standard to figure out how to do it. Indeed, a functional equivalence rule is also nice here: I can write a new program to implement *your* interface, even if I had to read your program to figure out what the interface is. (This is true because "interface copyright" has died flaming death.)
