From: Doug Ewell (dewell@roadrunner.com)
Date: Mon Jun 04 2007 - 22:31:49 CDT
Don Osborn <dzo at bisharat dot net> wrote:
> I think that Daniel's remark was intended in a light vein of speculation,
> and my response sought to highlight the humorous angle (not that one heard
> any laughs). No one doubts that there are important "terrestrial" issues
> WRT character encoding and locales, and just for the record, Daniel has
> done quite a lot in various practical areas from locales to advising
> students.
Back in the day when ISO 10646 was still 31 bits wide and the proposal was
made to limit it to 17 planes, as Unicode already was, there were quite a
few, apparently serious, objections that this would be a regrettable,
Y2K-like limitation because of the eventual discovery of non-terrestrial
scripts that would need the extra coding space. I think some of us who
remember this being portrayed as a genuine technical flaw in Unicode still
tend to wince when the topic is brought up, even if the humorous intent is
clear to everyone else. Sorry for being a stick in the mud.
-- Doug Ewell * Fullerton, California, USA * RFC 4645 * UTN #14 http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/ http://www1.ietf.org/html.charters/ltru-charter.html http://www.alvestrand.no/mailman/listinfo/ietf-languages
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