On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 02:15:22AM +0900, Dan Kogai wrote:
> How will Unicode cope with this kind of dynamically
> changing character set?
Everything I've read says that the vast majority of Kanji are from a
limited set. Just like math characters, characters will have to be added
every so often.
> As a result Hangul
> now even has more code points than Traditional Chinese. With this
> Unicode Consortium has lost a good reason to reject new proposal to add
> more characters. If elvish get the code points why not real, alive
> language get more?
There are 60,000 unified Han characters in Unicode, and you would
quible over 100 for Tengwar?
In any case, we aren't talking live languages here. The set of
Chinese and Japanese ideographs in modern use have been encoded. The
characters left are obscure historical ones.
> I confess I enjoyed this thread of whether Tengwar should be include
> in Unicode. It's fun. It's cute. But isn't this too much for those
> who accepted the compromise for UNIcode? Tengwar should wait till more
> critical issues are resolved. Many (including me ) would be pissed if
> Tengwar be added BEFORE Ciao-Ciao's poetries and Man-Yo-Shu become
> encodable in Unicode.
Why should a great Western author have to wait on a great Eastern
author? And how will it help - the IRG work on filling Plane 2 and
Michael Everson and a cast of dozens work on filling Planes 0 and 1,
with very little influence on each other.
I'd be surprised to find that Ciao-Ciao's poetries aren't encodable in
Unicode. The IRG did a lot of work in collecting all the spare
characters and putting them into Plane 2, and such a significant author
should have been included.
-- David Starner - starner@okstate.edu "It's not a habit; it's cool; I feel alive. If you don't have it you're on the other side." - K's Choice (probably refering to the Internet)
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