On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 04:44:46PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > In the meantime, the normally-encountered working character set of modern > Asian languages has been in Unicode from the beginning, and currently the > older and rarer characters and the characters used these days only in > proper names are being backfilled at a rate of tens of thousands per > Unicode revision. How this can then be described as ignoring Asian > languages boggles me beyond words. There are a lot of characters. It > takes time. Rome wasn't built in a day. Also, remember what I wrote earlier: all the characters in the Chinese Han Yu Da Zidian and the Japanese Morohashi Dai Kanwa Jiten are now adopted into Unicode. -- "If you do not wish your beer to be served without the traditional head, please ask for a top-up". With the subtext: "Your traditional head will then exit via the traditional window. Arsehole". - Mark Dickerson
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