RE: Is 879,309 enough?

From: Marco Cimarosti (marco.cimarosti@essetre.it)
Date: Tue Nov 06 2001 - 13:26:14 EST


Rick McGowan wrote:
> [...] John Jenkins says:
> > the IRG is *already* looking to adding some 60,000 ideographs
> > for Extension C.
>
> We have an obvious law of increasing inutility operating
> here... [...]
> If we have an extension that increases in size by even a mere 20,000
> characters every 2 years, we're looking at overflowing by the
> year 2010.

Then, in January 2011, the UTC made the decision to allocate a few hundreds
*combining* CJK radicals into the last remaining code points. In April
2015, the digital typography industry announced dramatic job cuts.

_ Marco



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