From: vunzndi@vfemail.net
Date: Sat Mar 01 2008 - 18:29:31 CST
Quoting David Starner <prosfilaes@gmail.com>:
>
> Unicode intends to be a complete standard for encoding text, including
> a huge array of characters including the interrobang, obscure phonetic
> characters, characters for obsolete orthographies for small languages,
> and Chinese characters found only in dictionaries. A character does
> not need to be a common part of Myanmar text to be worth encoding.
> None of this affects Kent Karlsson's argument that they've already
> been encoded, of course.
>
>
Unicode intends to be a collection of all significant scripts, whether
past, present or future. Admittedly it does include some of the above
but this was not the intent.
John Knightley
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