From: Clifford Heath <cjh_nospam@...>
Date: 2002-08-06T11:00:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Unicode in Ruby now?

Curt Sampson wrote:
> NOTHING IS BEING DROPPED! ALL CHARACTERS ARE REPRESENTABLE IN UTF-16! HELLO!

Hey, no need to shout. Why is there a Mojikyo standard if no-one's being
shut out? I can only assume that they want to represent characters that
are excluded from Unicode but could have been easily included via UCS-4
and UTF-8. Am I wrong, and are the Mojikyo people just pig-headed?

> Aside from a few kanji specialists,...

Those few also need to use computers - linguistic study is a valid use for
computers - and there's no need to adopt a standard that forces them to
use an encoding other than that used by the rest of the world.

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Clifford Heath