https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16649
--- Comment #8 from Guy Harris <ghar...@sonic.net> ---
(In reply to Guy Harris from comment #7)
> (In reply to Gerald Combs from comment #5)
> > Sorry this is kind of long, but the rabbit hole went lots of places.
>
> Bear in mind that one of the big original proponents of Unicode had a line
> of 16-bit word-addressable desktop computers, and I guess, thought "nobody
> will ever need more than 65536 code points". Boy, did that assumption ever
> go to 💩 over time....
References:
http://unicode.org/history/unicode88.pdf
1988 Unicode proposal, from somebody working at the aforementioned big original
proponent in question, composed, from the look of it, on one of the
workstations from that company.
https://xkcd.com/1953/
What happens when you end up going beyond "encompass the characters of all the
world's living languages", and 16 bits per character are definitely not "more
than sufficient for this purpose". (Unless you consider emoji one of "the
world's living languages".)
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