From: Curt Sampson Date: 2002-08-01T21:55:48+09:00 Subject: Re: Unicode in Ruby now? On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Alexander Bokovoy wrote: > Unicode 3.1 is 32-bit wide. I have just looked at my 3.0 standard and the 3.1 and 3.2 updates on the web site, and I do not see any evidence of this. Did I miss something? See the message I just posted for the details as I know them. > I do not see reason to exist projects like > Mojikyo when it is perfectly can be done in 32-bit Unicode. Mojikyo is doing things like setting code points for characters that will never exist in Unicode, because those characters are combined due to the character combining rules. Mojikyo has a different purpose from Unicode: Unicode wants to make doing standard, day-to-day work easy; Mojikyo wants to give maximum flexability in the display of Chinese characters. Given the number and complexity of kanji, these two aims are basically incompatable. cjs -- Curt Sampson +81 90 7737 2974 http://www.netbsd.org Don't you know, in this new Dark Age, we're all light. --XTC