Re: Should we care much about this Unicode-ish criticism?

[Simon Cozens]

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.

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