Hallo. I am writing a short article about Unicode, and I realized that I don't know or I am not sure of many Unicode-related facts and dates that I would like to mention.
I apologize for this is a huge list of questions (and I hope that they are not all in the FAQ). Anyway, if anybody is in the mood for trivia, I thank you in advance: - When did the Unicode project start, and who started it? - Is it true Han Unification was the core of Unicode, and the idea of an universal encoding come afterwards? - Who and when invented the name "Unicode"? - When did the ISO 10646 project start? - When did Unicode and ISO 10646 merge? - What is the name of the GB and JIS standards that have the same repertoire as Unicode? - When did Unicode stop to be "16 bits"? (I.e., when were surrogates added?) - I can't remember the version when some scripts were added: Syriac, Thaana, Sinhala, Tibetan, Myanmar, Ethiopic, Cherokee, Canadian Syllabics, Ogham, Runes, Khmer, Mongolian, Yi, Etruscan, Gothic, Deseret, CJK ext. A, CJK ext. B. - Roughly, how many ideographs are in modern use in extensions A and B? - Roughly, when will version 3.2 become official? - Roughly, when will the version 4 book be published? I also have a few non-Unicode questions: - When was ASCII first published and by whom? - What standard was current before ASCII? (BAUDOT, is it?) How many bits did it use? - Did the ASCII standard expire, and when? - When was ISO 646 published? - I think that ISO 646 expired. When? - When was ISO 8859 published? - When did the first double-byte encoding appear? - Are OpenType fonts currently implemented in any platform other than Windows? Thanks again, in advance. _ Marco
