On 23/12/2003 22:05, Doug Ewell wrote:
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, thanks for making this new point re ancient Semitic scripts.
Fundamental identity of the characters is a strong reason for unifying
these scripts as well as Han scripts. As I wrote a few days ago, ALEF
is ALEF is ALEF is ALEF, whatever glyph shapes are used.
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