Re: Code pages and Unicode (wasn't really: RE: Endangered Alphabets)

From: Jukka K. Korpela <jkorpela_at_cs.tut.fi>
Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2011 00:35:47 +0300

20.8.2011 0:07, Doug Ewell wrote:

> Of course, 2.1 billion characters is also overkill, but the advent of
> UTF-16 was how we ended up with 17 planes.

And now we think that a little over a million is enough for everyone,
just as they thought in the late 1980s that 16 bits is enough for everyone.

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