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

From: kusu@fxis.fujixerox.co.jp
Date: Sat Jun 09 2001 - 04:02:19 PDT

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Hello Mr. .Carroll
My name is Hiro Kusunoki I am a member of Bootstrap Alliance Japan.
Yes, you are right. USC-2 will not cover all the characters of the globe.
However, USC-4 (32bit code) has been proposed under the ISO10646.
Unfortunately, there may be a considerable amount of work needed till all the
involved community reaches consensus on how to map their characters in the code
scheme.
Regards,
Hiro Kusunoki
Fuji Xerox Information Systems, Co. Ltd.
kusu@fxis.co.jp

"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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