Re: Unicode complaints

[DougEwell2]

In a message dated 2001-03-15 11:57:11 Pacific Standard Time, 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

> A broad summary of the CJK issues that I gathered:
...
>  --Limited number of code points 

If anyone is complaining that the number of code points in Unicode is too 
limited (whether for CJK reasons or otherwise) it is because of that silly 
myth that keeps going around that Unicode is a 16-bit character encoding that 
has room for 2^16 characters.

As I mentioned not long ago, even the latest on-line documentation shipped 
with Windows 2000 perpetuates this story, and I have to believe it is 
misleading a LOT of people.

-Doug Ewell
 Fullerton, California