On Wednesday, March 20, 2002, at 01:55 PM, Dan Kogai wrote:
>
> How can you be so sure that "Most Japanese disagree"? Have you
> actually taken a poll? I happen to be a Japanese and even I am not sure
> how much beloved or hated Unicode is here.
Point well taken. I'll amend my statement to "most of the pro-Unicode
Japanese agree." :-)
> Isn't this kind of attitude that makes people like Ohta-san angry?
No. Ohta-san gets mad when someone suggests that you don't have to be
Japanese to understand how Japanese text is written.
> To me Unicode Consortium has already showed a big incompetence when it
> introduced Surrogate Pair.... What was Han Unification for after all?
>
I'm not sure I understand the question.
Han Unification -- a concept found in Japanese standard circles --
recognizes the historical unity of the ideographs used throughout East
Asia and takes the approach that they should be unified.
Surrogates were introduced because it was clear that we would ultimately
need more than 65536 code points to encode what people wanted to represent.
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