Re: Level of Unicode support required for various languages

From: vunzndi@vfemail.net
Date: Tue Oct 30 2007 - 20:13:55 CST

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    Quoting David Starner <prosfilaes@gmail.com>:

    > On 10/30/07, vunzndi@vfemail.net <vunzndi@vfemail.net> wrote:
    >> Quoting "Mark E. Shoulson" <mark@kli.org>:
    >>
    >> > vunzndi@vfemail.net wrote:
    >> >> The minimum is likely to be about 30 thousand, to be honest nobody
    >> >> knows what the upper limit is, but 100k would not be inconceivable.
    >> > I knew that dropping planes 17-65535 was a bad idea!
    >> >
    >> > ~mark
    >>
    >>
    >> Yes, this has always struck me as a strange decision, but it would
    >> seem to be one that can be reversed without any stability issues.
    >
    > Except for breaking all the code out there that uses UTF-16, SCSU, or
    > otherwise depends on the limit.
    >

    There are advatages to utf-8

    John

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