Re: The Unicode Standard, Version 3.1

[Michael \(michka\) Kaplan]

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> The historic notion
> of Unicode as a uniformly 16-bit encoding has been in principle obsolete
> for a while, but now it is also obsolete in practical terms.

Actually, I think *that* statement is a bit premature, still. It is not
obsolete in pratical terms until there is widespread support in the way of
fonts, keyboards, IMEs, and the other important items that help bring
characters to the user.

Looking at it another way: prior to now, we were young teenagers, unable to
drive. The work to produce 3.1 is like turning 16 and getting a license. But
until we have a car that we are allowed to use, that license is just gonna
burn a hole in our pocket. :-)

michka