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/

