From: Curt Sampson Date: 2002-08-07T16:44:53+09:00 Subject: Re: Unicode in Ruby now? On Tue, 6 Aug 2002, Tanaka Akira wrote: > In article , > Curt Sampson writes: > > > In Japan, I have *never* met anyone outside of someone testing Unicode > > or Unicode-based applications that has ever used a surrogate character. > > Because Unicode has all JIS X 0208 characters in BMP. Yes. And also all JIS X 212 characters. > However new > standard JIS X 0213:2000 requires surrogate area to represent it. Right. > Since Unicode assigns characters in surrogate area since Unicode-3.1 > which is released in 2001, they are not widely used yet. > I agree you, now. But I think it will be deployed near future. Do you really think so? I think it says a lot that the vast majority of Japanese text processing and web pages are done in Shift_JIS, which encodes only JIS X 208. It doesn't encode JIS X 212, much less JIS X 213. If most Japanese people during the past decade have not even felt the need to add JIX X 212 to their character repetoire, why would they need to add JIX X 213? JIS X 213 is two years now; what products use it? 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