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By author: David Starner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In newsgroup: linux.utf8
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> > It's easy to chew up planes if you have to do something systematic...
>
> It can't be "idiosyncratic, personal, novel, rarely exchanged, or
> private-use", and it can't be a "[g]raphology unreleated to text".
> Within those restrictions, and the fact that they won't add hundreds of
> thousands of characters without very very good reason, what's going to
> be added to Unicode to take up 700 thousand characters?
>
That may be true now, but personally, I wouldn't bet on it. One of
the strengths of Unicode as opposed to legacy encodings is that it can
expand to service new needs, which I think was made eminently clear
with the introduction of the Euro symbol.
All I'm saying is don't take too much for granted.
-hpa
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