Space limitation in 65536-slots Unicode? (was: "Re: Aramaic unification and information retrieval")

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On 2003.12.23, 23:23, Christopher John Fynn <cfynn@gmx.net> wrote:

> Remember that Unicode (not ISO 10646) was originally going to be a
> 16bit (plane 0 only encoding) - so I suspect CJK unification was at
> least partly due to space limitations.

Hopefully not. OTOH, why then wasting space with composable hangul
letters? It was one of the "original sins" wasn't it?

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