Remember that Unicode (not ISO 10646) was originally going to be a 16bit (plane 0 only encoding) - so I suspect CJK unification was at least partly due to space limitations.
-- Christopher J. Fynn ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jony Rosenne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 9:49 PM Subject: RE: [hebrew] Re: Aramaic unification and information retrieval > So what about Chinese, Japanese and Korean? Was it wrong to unify them? > > Jony
