Re: Talk about Unicode Myths...

From: David Starner (starner@okstate.edu)
Date: Wed Mar 20 2002 - 17:04:58 EST


On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 05:55:41AM +0900, Dan Kogai wrote:
> Isn't this kind of attitude
> that makes people like Ohta-san angry?

I think what makes Ohta-san angry is that the Japanese didn't get to
make Unicode. When reading his complaints, I always remember that
they're coming from someone who put forth ISO-2022-INT, an
'international' encoding that supports only Japanese and Chinese well.
(And maybe Korean.)

> To me Unicode Consortium has already showed a big incompetence when it
> introduced Surrogate Pair.... What was Han Unification for after all?

Because Han ideographs are clearly one script, and a decision had to be
made as to where the seperation between characters and variants was.

-- 
David Starner - starner@okstate.edu
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If you don't have it you're on the other side." 
- K's Choice (probably refering to the Internet)



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