"Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela at cs dot tut dot fi> wrote: > And now we think that a little over a million is enough for everyone, > just as they thought in the late 1980s that 16 bits is enough for > everyone.
I know this is an enjoyable exercise — people love to ridicule Bill Gates for his comment in 1981 about 640K, even though that was an order of magnitude larger than any home computer of the day — but every time I hear someone protest that the Unicode code space won't be large enough, it eventually comes down to one of: 1. Expanding scope to cover extraterrestrial characters 2. Expanding scope to cover glyphs or other things that aren't currently considered "characters" I don't worry about item 1. I suppose I should worry some about item 2, ever since the emoji experience. -- Doug Ewell | Thornton, Colorado, USA | RFC 5645, 4645, UTN #14 www.ewellic.org | www.facebook.com/doug.ewell | @DougEwell