On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 04:49:08PM -0700, Stewart Stremler wrote:
> 
> I think the problem is that unicode tried to solve the wrong problem.
> The real problem wasn't "how do we let everyone have single-character
> glyphs", but "how do we let people write in their own language on a
> computer".  Since we're ready to accept bloat at the outset, a better
> approach (to my way of thinking) would be to toss out ANSI, stick with
> ASCII, and redefine those ANSI characters as indicators for variable
> length strings that should constitute a glyph.
> 

Umm ... how you gonna map 128 codes to the 3,000 or so characters that,
say, simplified Mandarin needs?

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