From: David Starner <dvdeug@email.ro>
Subject: Re: Supporting full Unicode
Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 19:09:20 GMT
Date: 2004-05-12T19:09:20+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <pan.2004.05.12.18.54.17.63521@email.ro> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1326387.jKy1seHaPs@linux1.krischik.com
On Wed, 12 May 2004 12:43:22 +0200, Martin Krischik wrote:
> Won't happen. Well up until recently only 16 bit where used and programmers
> freely mixed UTF-16 and UCS-16. But then the archaeologist came.
Until 1996. It's been clear since at least then that Chinese would need
more than that--if you threw Chinese ideographs out of the standard, the
rest would fit in 16 bits, and if you threw everything else out of the
standard, it still wouldn't fit in 16 bits. The standard in 1996 told
programmers that they would need to implement a 21 bit code space, and
told them how to do it; the only thing that waited until recently was
actually adding characters there.
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Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-11 17:45 Supporting full Unicode Brian Catlin
2004-05-12 7:44 ` Ludovic Brenta
2004-05-12 8:23 ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-05-12 10:43 ` Martin Krischik
2004-05-12 14:56 ` Björn Persson
2004-05-12 19:09 ` David Starner [this message]
2004-05-12 19:25 ` David Starner
2004-05-12 9:41 ` David Starner
2004-05-12 10:16 ` Björn Persson
2004-05-12 10:57 ` Ludovic Brenta
2004-05-12 14:53 ` Björn Persson
2004-05-12 18:55 ` David Starner
2004-05-12 9:30 ` Martin Krischik
2004-05-13 1:15 ` Randy Brukardt
2004-05-13 17:58 ` Brian Catlin
2004-05-13 19:42 ` Randy Brukardt
2004-05-14 8:40 ` Andersen Jacob Sparre
2004-05-14 20:20 ` Randy Brukardt
2004-05-14 4:00 ` Vadim Godunko
2004-05-14 17:51 ` Brian Catlin
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2004-05-12 12:40 amado.alves
2004-05-12 14:34 ` Martin Krischik
2004-05-12 18:24 ` David Starner
2004-05-12 20:04 ` Florian Weimer
2004-05-12 14:12 amado.alves
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