From: Christopher John Fynn (cfynn@gmx.net)
Date: Wed Dec 24 2003 - 06:46:21 EST
"John Jenkins" <jenkins@apple.com> wrote:
> 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.
I stand corrected.
BTW are the classical written languages of China & Japan more or less the same
thing??
I understand that the Chinese Buddhist canon is also used by the Japanese
without translation
so I assume that there was (/is?) more or less a common written language - at
least for that kind of material.
- Chris
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