homas Lord scripsit: > The chickens will come home to roost on that hack right around the > time that the Unicode Consortium runs out of code points to assign.
Willing to put your money where your mouth is? I've already won several bets of this type. If you'll put a time limit on it (so that the bet won't become a lien on my estate) and agree that the bet is off if and when humanity begins communicating with ETIs, then I'll be happy to take such a bet for a reasonable amount. Characters aren't like IP addresses. There is simply no place on Earth where large, totally unknown character sets are at all likely to be lurking. Although not all scripts are encoded, all scripts have been enumerated and their approximate size computed. It is very unlikely that we will even break out of the currently specified range of planes 0-3, special plane E, and private-use planes F and 10. -- While staying with the Asonu, I met a man from John Cowan the Candensian plane, which is very much like [email protected] ours, only more of it consists of Toronto. http://www.ccil.org/~cowan --Ursula K. Le Guin, Changing Planes _______________________________________________ r6rs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.r6rs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r6rs-discuss
