Re: [hebrew] Re: Aramaic unification and information retrieval

From: Doug Ewell (dewell@adelphia.net)
Date: Wed Dec 24 2003 - 01:05:42 EST

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Christopher John Fynn <cfynn at gmx dot net> wrote:

> Remember that Unicode (not ISO 10646) was originally going to be a
> 16bit (plane 0 only encoding) - so I suspect CJK unification was at
> least partly due to space limitations.

I think there was something in there about fundamental identity of the
characters as well.

-Doug Ewell
Fullerton, California
http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/

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