>just as they thought in the late 1980s that 16 bits Under the original design principles of Unicode, the goal was a bit more limited; we envisioned composition for Hangul, no need for the chunk of presentation formats, a generative mechanism for infrequent CJK ideographs, and people's using the PUA for non-modern scripts.
And with that model, 16 bits *was* enough. Of course, for various reasons (too many to recount quickly) it didn't end up going in that direction. > we think that a little over a million is enough for everyone And with good reason. Short of Martians showing up... Mark *— Il meglio è l’inimico del bene —* On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 14:35, Jukka K. Korpela <[email protected]> wrote: > 20.8.2011 0:07, Doug Ewell wrote: > > Of course, 2.1 billion characters is also overkill, but the advent of >> UTF-16 was how we ended up with 17 planes. >> > > And now we think that a little over a million is enough for everyone, just > as they thought in the late 1980s that 16 bits is enough for everyone. > > -- > Yucca, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~**jkorpela/ <http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/> > >
