> In message <001501c08ca3$56acd8a0$1f3619d0@computer>, "N. C a r r o l l"
writes
[snip]
> >However, it won't happen tomorrow. And in that light: I work
> >with a programmer/linguist who assures me that all hell is about
> >to break loose over who gets to use the 56,000 characters of
> >Unicode. By the time you add together Han, Katakana, Hiragana,
> >not to mention Hancha, you're at some 70k characters. But the
> >fun only begins there. My colleague assures me that the world's
> >characters add up to about 150,000. He's writing a paper
> >about it -- I'll post the link.
>
> Luckily, ISO (ISO/IEC 10646) has understood this and Unicode (aka UCS-2)
> is only one of the possible UCS encodings. UCS-4 gives a full 32 bit
> integer per character and lives up to the universalist's most
> stringent requirements.
>
> A decent intro can be found at:
>
> http://www.nada.kth.se/i18n/ucs/unicode-iso10646-oview.html
>
> Lee Iverson SRI International
Thanks for the link, I hadn't seen that. Apparently there's more to it;
for one, UCS-4 carries on the UCS-2 CJK character unification scheme,
in which (C)hinese, (J)apanes, and (Korean) characters are considered to
be identical. Since there are differences in how the nationalites write a
given character, this is apparently not going over well in Asia. But I'm
getting out of my depth here; I'll post a link to my colleague's paper
when he's done.
N.
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