From: Tobias Peters <tpeters@...>
Date: 2002-08-01T21:01:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Unicode in Ruby now?

On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Curt Sampson wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Tobias Peters wrote:
> > Are there any other character sets of relevance that are not part of
> > unicode yet?
> 
> Yeah. [... Mojikyo ...]

Sorry, with "other" I meant besides Mojikyo. ?

> Not just political reasons, but practical reasons. Unicode is designed
> to work if you restrict yourself to using only 16-bit chars, and I
> expect most programs are going to limit themselves to that.

I thought this was a design error, and Unicode has now roughly 32 bits for
code points, and I read somewhere it is expected that 21 bits will suffice
to encode all possible glyphs.

  Tobias