Ken Whistler wrote: >> Q. Who understands Unicode? >> A. One student raised his hand. (This is an improvement on last year >> as no hand was raised last year) > > After 27 years of Unicode development, and with the standard (and its > accumulated ancillary standards, data, repositories, and libraries) > grown so huge, it is no longer clear to me how many participants in a > *UTC* meeting would raise their hands in response to that question!
The bar for "understands" is lower among non-experts. I would actually be considered the resident "Unicode expert" among my co-workers, which might surprise some folks and alarm others. -- Doug Ewell | Thornton, CO, US | ewellic.org
