Ar 13:06 -0800 2001-01-29, scríobh Alistair Vining:
>1) There is no information to identify the language being used, which
>affects sorting, etc.
Same with ASCII. Use markup.
>2) User defined characters, which cause problems in data transmission, are
>allowed
Only by agreement by sender and receiver. And consider the ConScript
registry. People who want to exchange data can do so
>3) There is no room for further expansion using two-byte (16-bit) codes
Hunh?
>4) There is an excess of similar characters
How many is an excess exactly?
>5) Some characters are created through composition, which destroys the
>fixed-length scheme
It isn't meant to be a fixed-length scheme.
>6) Conversion to/from Unicode is not simple for users of Chinese, Japanese,
>and Korean
Neither is learning to read simple for users of Chinese and Japanese, or
Korean which uses Han.
;-)
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