RE: Code pages and Unicode (wasn't really: RE: Endangered Alphabets)

From: Doug Ewell <doug_at_ewellic.org>
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 09:24:15 -0700

srivas sinnathurai <sisrivas at blueyonder dot co dot uk> wrote:

> Why this suggestion?
> With current flat space, one code point is only allocated to one and
> only one purpose.
> We can run out of code space soon.

Argument over. There are not 800,000 more characters that need to be
encoded for storage or interchange. There may well be 800,000 glyphs,
or images, or meanings, but that is not what any character encoding
standard is for.

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