Joel Rees wrote:
> Why not make everything a constant 2-byte width and be done with it?
> Early estimates for CJKV were about 3,000 each for everyday use, with
> lots of overlap, so the 20,000 allocated in UNICODE was thought to have
> been enough. But the real numbers are coming in, and each is counting
> more than 50,000. And the overlap is not as useful as we want to believe.
>
FYI, Extension B has 42,711 CJKV ideographs. The total number of unique
CJKV ideographs in Unicode 3.1 will therefore be 70,207.
