> From: Markus Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> - lots of historic ideographs have been added in Plane 02
            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
In accurate, the ideographs in plane 2 is not necessarily be
classified as historic. They are in fact the mixture of modern and
historic ideographs.

> To be honest, I don't think that support for non-BMP characters in
> terminal emulators is a particularly urgent issue, as the non-BMP
> characters are unlikely to be of any real use to the vast majority of
> terminal emulator users.

I have to say this is unfortunately a false assumtion, of course
it depends on the definition of the vast majority of terminal emulator
users.

One obvious example is JIS 0213 support.

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