Re2: switching ISO 2022 <-> Un

From: Jenkins, John (JJENKINS@AppleLink.Apple.COM)
Date: Fri Jan 17 1997 - 18:37:00 EST


Doug Schiffer <dschiffer@servtech.com> says:
 
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> The very reason for this is the fact that some CJK encodings (e.g. > > CNS)
> can't be covered with Unicode, but Western languages are most easily
> implemented in Unicode.
 
I'm willing to bet that every character in CNS and CCCII that's not in
Unicode will be encoded in Plane 2 of the 32 bit extension of Unicode.
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Not gonna happen. Both CCCII and CNS contain characters which are unifiable
and will NOT be independently included in Unicode. People who insist on round-
trip conversion will need to use user space. (Alternatively, we could define a
CJK compatibility plane -- but given the fact that there are some 135,000 spots
for user-defined characters, this seems unnecessary.)
 



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