Well, most of the various CJK encodings clearly would have a lot more than 9
bits to them. Kind of required for any system dealing with thousands of
characters.
MichKa
Michael Kaplan
Trigeminal Software, Inc.
http://www.trigeminal.com/
----- Original Message -----
From: <Peter_Constable@sil.org>
To: <unicode@unicode.org>
Sent: Friday, May 18, 2001 6:35 AM
Subject: Re: [OT] bits and bytes
>
> Thanks for all the interesting feedback.
>
> Now let me ask a slightly different question: Prior to Unicode and ISO
> 10646, what were the smallest and largest size code units ever used for
> representing character data? In the various responses, there was reference
> to 6- and 9-bit character representations (on the Unisys 1100: 6 for
> "Fielddata", and 9 for ASCII). There may have been other references to big
> and small sizes for character data but if so it wasn't clear to me if
> specifically character data was involved.
>
> Any characters bigger than 9 bits smaller than 6?
>
>
>
> - Peter
>
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