From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,bcb6f63419c2a56b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public Path: controlnews3.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!wn13feed!worldnet.att.net!bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: David Starner Subject: Re: Supporting full Unicode User-Agent: Pan/0.14.2.91 (As She Crawled Across the Table (Debian GNU/Linux)) Message-Id: Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <9j8oc.16324$V97.13312@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net> <2004512-94456-948110@foorum.com> <1326387.jKy1seHaPs@linux1.krischik.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 19:09:20 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.72.70.249 X-Complaints-To: abuse@worldnet.att.net X-Trace: bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net 1084388960 12.72.70.249 (Wed, 12 May 2004 19:09:20 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 19:09:20 GMT Organization: AT&T Worldnet Xref: controlnews3.google.com comp.lang.ada:506 Date: 2004-05-12T19:09:20+00:00 List-Id: 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.