-----Original Message-----
From: Bernard Miller [mailto:forunicode@yahoo.com]
Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 5:19 PM
To: info@unicode.org
Subject: 6 questions
Hello,
These are the questions I wanted to
ask:
1. Why does Unicode say that there are 63486 code
values available to represent characters with single
16 bit values and 2048 available to represent an
additional 1,048,544 characters as surrogates? 65536 -
2048 = 63488 (difference of 2) --I guess it's due to
the 2 code values guaranteed not to be characters. But
what about: 1024 x 1024 = 1,048,576 (difference of
32), what accounts for the 32?
2. CNS = chinese national standard? Why is there a
chinese standard for japanese small variant forms
(ch14, page 334 of Unicode 3.0 book)? Do CJK
ideographs have small variant forms? Where are they?
3. Why don't "noBreak" formatted Unicode characters
have a canonical decomposition (the compatibility
decomposition surrounded by glue)?
4. Greek final sigma is not considered a compatibility
decomposition (word position variant) because it's
usage could also be dependant on spelling convention?
Is that right? Even if so, isn't it more consistent to
precede sigma with a non joiner if you don't want it
to automatically be displayed as final sigma at the
end of a word?
5. How come east asian width type W and H are non
starters for line breaking?
6. Why does Unicode use "capital" vs "small letter"
terminology instead of "uppercase" vs "lowercase"? It
seems like lowercase is more descriptive than "small
letter".
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