Re: "Giga Character Set": Anything besides noise

[Doug Ewell]

Frank da Cruz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I don't have the book ["The Black Hole"] any more, so I can't check
> this myself, but I wonder if (unlike "Hamlet" :-) that book could be
> completely encoded in Unicode...

Have we figured out yet what part of "Hamlet" the Giga people claim
cannot be encoded in Unicode?  Or, for that matter, how the choice of
*any* character set over another could make a 1500x speed difference in
display processing (let alone anything else)?

-Doug Ewell
 Fullerton, California