> No way!! The biggest blunder ever made by Korean nat'l standard body > is to insist that 11,172 modern precomposed syllables be encoded > in Unicode/10646. Next biggest blunder they made is to encode tens > of totally unnecessary cluster-Jamos when only 17+11+17+ a few more > would have been more than sufficient. Next stupid thing they did is > to remove compatibility decomposition between cluster Jamos and basic > Jamo sequences although they should be canonically(not just compatibly) > equivalent. Now, you're saying that all possible combinations of them > be encoded. How many? It's __infinite__ in theory. In practice, it could > be around 1.5 milllion. That's more than the total number of codepoints > available in 20.1 bit coded character set which is ISO 10646/Unicode.
Would Chinese be in a similiar situation if it the radicals were combining characters, and any combination of them could in theory be a valid character? In practice, of course, a normal person would use far fewer than 10,000 distinct characters. Have you ever needed a character that wasnt among the 11,172 precomposed ones? -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
