Re: [unrev-II] However this will not prevent the coming Internet/Unicode nightmare

From: Lee Iverson (leei@ai.sri.com)
Date: Thu Feb 01 2001 - 15:59:33 PST

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In message <001501c08ca3$56acd8a0$1f3619d0@computer>, "N. C a r r o l l" writes
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: Eugene Eric Kim <eekim@eekim.com>
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>> http://partners.nytimes.com/2001/02/01/technology/01LOST.html
>>
>> This piece describes how people in China are forgetting how to write
>> Chinese characters because of word processors.
>[snip]
>
>An interesting article. I imagine the loss of writing skill *must*
>eventually handicap reading ability.
>
>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

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