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

From: John Jenkins (jenkins@apple.com)
Date: Wed Dec 24 2003 - 01:25:46 EST

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    On Dec 23, 2003, at 4:23 PM, Christopher John Fynn 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.
    >
    >

    No, it was not. Han would have been unified even if there had been
    space not to do so.

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    John H. Jenkins
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    jhjenkins@mac.com
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