On Tuesday, March 19, 2002, at 01:33 , John H. Jenkins wrote: > Of course, the correct solution to this is not to grouse about Unicode > (since it does better than any other character set around), but for JIS > to get an authoritative list of the characters people actually need > then lobby the IRG to get them into Unicode.
Right except for one thing. Han Unification. Itaiji should have been COLLATED, not UNIFIED. Well, that maybe overruled in time (at least we have enough code points for that now).... This is, BTW, basically what the HKSAR did. There are still some gaps, but we don't have dozens of angry anybody's (we hope) to deal with now. Fortunately for Unicode, many of those who may be angry are elders who are less likely to use computers than younger generations -- for now. Remember Unicode is only 15 years old (since it is named in 1997), or 12 years old since Unicode 1.0. And since Unicode deals with data, its fame, or notoriety, for the better or for the worse, is likely to last much longer than computer architectures. It's too early to make judgements. Dan the Man with Too Many Coding Systems to Support
