After the recent list discussions about benefits and shortcomings of Unicode and about complaints about it, I put together a personal "wish list" for what Unicode could have been without most of the compromises that, well, made it successful.
The result is a back-to-the-principles "WCode", nicely streamlined:
- no compatibility or precomposed characters
- all logical order
- cleaned up encoding forms
+ 16-bit form directly sorts in code point order
+ 8-bit form encodes the BMP uniquely and C1 controls as single bytes
- BMP has many more unassigned code points
Join me for another "Gedankenexperiment" at http://www.mindspring.com/~markus.scherer/unicode/wcode.html
This is not a serious proposal.
markus
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