From: John Jenkins (jenkins@apple.com)
Date: Thu Apr 29 2004 - 14:01:21 EDT
On Apr 29, 2004, at 11:06 AM, Antoine Leca wrote:
> c) The very reason for Han unification was the need to shoelace it
> into 16
> bits (it is also the 'marque de fabrique' and the most clear success of
> Unicode). There was no such incentive for the present Indian scripts.
> Would
> have it been the case, or if the dilemma would have been between one
> script
> in BMP or several in PSP, I bet they would have been unified promptly,
> and
> the rendering engines would have been sent to h**l.
>
While it is true that the originally 16 bit architecture required Han
unification, it isn't it's raison d'être. Unicode would have done Han
unification regardless.
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