Re: [long] Use of Unicode in AbiWord

From: John Cowan (cowan@locke.ccil.org)
Date: Fri Mar 19 1999 - 17:59:43 EST


Rick McGowan wrote:

> One of every 500 million people, give or take a million, is likely to ever
> run into even ONE Chinese character that is not already among the
> approximately 25,000 of them encoded in Unicode today. Most learned people
> do not know even 6,000 characters.

I think for "ONE" you should substitute "TWO", since many people have
non-Unihan characters in their names, or so we are told.

-- 
John Cowan	http://www.ccil.org/~cowan		cowan@ccil.org
	You tollerday donsk?  N.  You tolkatiff scowegian?  Nn.
	You spigotty anglease?  Nnn.  You phonio saxo?  Nnnn.
		Clear all so!  'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)



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