Re: Perception that Unicode is 16-bit (was: Re: Surrogate

From: John Hudson (tiro@tiro.com)
Date: Tue Feb 20 2001 - 15:49:31 EST


At 10:48 AM 2/20/2001 -0800, Michael \(michka\) Kaplan wrote:

>I think everyone here can likely agree that there is a lot of evil and
>confusion caused by having a language name and a script name be the same.
>Especially given cases like Arabic where the number of "non-Arabic Arabic
>letters" is so large!

Since we're nit-picking about terminology, I have to say that I usually
reserve the term 'evil' for things like torture and murder.

John Hudson

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