On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 06:30:23PM -0700, Stewart Stremler wrote: > begin quoting Lan Barnes as of Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 06:19:27PM -0700: > [snip] > > Umm ... how you gonna map 128 codes to the 3,000 or so characters that, > > say, simplified Mandarin needs? > > String 'em together to form words. > > Otherwise, we might as well demand that a simplified english dictionary > be included so we don't have to waste all that space using several > characters to encode a word rather than just one like most people do. > > -Stewart
I imagine that the people who did Unicode gave it some thought. It's a Lan Barnes trick to assume that I know all the issues, not a Stewart Stremler one. Let's stick to our appointed roles. -- Lan Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Guy, SCM Specialist 858-354-0616 -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
