Christopher John Fynn <cfynn at gmx dot net> wrote:

> 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.

I think there was something in there about fundamental identity of the
characters as well.

-Doug Ewell
 Fullerton, California
 http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/


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