RE: More on the ASCII/Unicode support

[Steve Langasek]

On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Ove Kaaven wrote:

> > You will find many speakers (and writers) of Asian languages who disagree
> > with that assessment.

> Naturally.

> Their historical cause of complaint, the UCS2 (16-bit) limitation, is long
> since removed with UTF16 and UCS4/UTF32.

I was under the impression, perhaps mistaken, that UTF16 also had some
problems because the Unicode Consortium had opted to represent several
different glyphs, superficially similar to someone unfamiliar with the
language, with a single Unicode entry.

If this is not in fact a problem with UTF16, then I'll file away that
information for future reference.

Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer