From: Peter Constable (petercon@microsoft.com)
Date: Thu May 19 2005 - 14:50:39 CDT
> From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org]
On Behalf
> Of Dean Snyder
> Here, off the top of my head, are some problems with Unicode which,
> cumulatively, could prove its undoing:
>
> Needless complexity...
> As just one example of the kind of architectural change that could
drive
> new encoding schemes, one could propose an encoding design that self-
> references its own mutability, thereby redefining "stability" to
include
> not only extensibility but also reversibility. This would be
> accomplished by dedicating as version indicators, e.g., 7 of the 32
bits
> in every 4 byte character.
What were you saying about complexity?
Peter Constable
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