Dadgum it. Just when you thought it was safe...
"N. C a r r o l l" wrote:
>
> "Why Unicode Won't Work on the Internet:
> Linguistic, Political, and Technical Limitations
>
> Summary
>
> Unicode, the commercial equivalent of UCS-2 (ISO 10646-1), has been
> widely assumed to be a comprehensive solution for electronically
> mapping
> all the characters of the world's languages, being a 16-bit character
> definition allowing a theoretical total of over 65,000 characters.
> However,
> the complete character sets of the world add up to over 170,000
> characters. This paper summarizes the political turmoil and technical
> incompatibilities that are beginning to manifest themselves on the
> Internet as a consequence of that oversight. (For the more technically
> inclined: Unicode 3.1 won't work either.)
>
> ..."
>
> http://www.hastingsresearch.com/net/04-unicode-limitations.shtml
>
> Comments particularly welcome from members of
> Bootstrap Alliance Japan.
>
> Nicholas
>
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