>just as they thought in the late 1980s that 16 bits
Under the original design principles of Unicode, the goal was a bit more
limited; we envisioned composition for Hangul, no need for the chunk of
presentation formats, a generative mechanism for infrequent CJK ideographs,
and
people's using the PUA for non-modern scripts.
And with that model, 16 bits *was* enough.
Of course, for various reasons (too many to recount quickly) it didn't end
up going in that direction.
> we think that a little over a million is enough for everyone
And with good reason. Short of Martians showing up...
Mark
*— Il meglio è l’inimico del bene —*
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 14:35, Jukka K. Korpela <jkorpela_at_cs.tut.fi> wrote:
> 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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