Re: [unrev-II] Why Unicode Won't Work on the Internet - white paper

From: Eric Armstrong (eric.armstrong@eng.sun.com)
Date: Wed Jun 27 2001 - 13:49:01 PDT

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    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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