On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Wu Yongwei wrote: > > > I wonder, how many people really want to use Unicode codepoints > beyond > > > U+FFFF? > > > > I don't want to make it incorrect by design just because cases it > doesn't > > handle are rare. > > It's unnecessary to handle ALL cases. You could address only issues > encountered/expected by your end users. IMHO, it is more important to > make an application be light-weight and run in 99% cases. Or, you may > find your language used by, say, 10000 people, and none uses the extra > features that you spend 40% of your development labour. And it is
As you wrote, one can do what one believes. Anyway, correctly handling non-BMP characters are not so much difficult (40% of your devel. time for 1% constituency seems to me too big an exaggeration :-) I know you're just maing your case clear...). Moreover, with Math characters in plane 1 and MathML more widely used, it'd not be so rare to find people who want to use non-BMP characters. Jungshik -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
