From: Doug Ewell (dewell@roadrunner.com)
Date: Tue Jun 05 2007 - 09:18:33 CDT
Andrew West <andrewcwest at gmail dot com> wrote:
> This is not just ancient history. At the Xiamen 2005 WG2 meeting this
> issue was debated quite vigorously, with Japan resolutely against
> restricting 10646 to 17 planes ... although no-one mentioned
> extra-terrestrial writing systems as far as I remember. The discussion on
> this issue in the minutes
> (<http://www.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n2903.pdf> section 8.4), although
> somewhat condensed, is worth reading:
> ...
> i. Mr. Taichi Kawabata: PUA has only two planes and a few rows. There may
> be user groups who want to use these planes for private use purposes. 17
> planes may not be enough.
Ah, this would be one of the continuing attempts to ignore the
character-glyph model and Han unification, and treat Unicode/10646 as a
glyph encoding.
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