On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > Well that is nonsense. Unicode incorporates Asian languages.
>
> You will find many speakers (and writers) of Asian languages who disagree
> with that assessment.
Naturally.
I can also easily find English speakers/writers that don't know how to
spell "definitely", plenty of Norwegian writers that cannot write compound
words correctly (that's a favorite complaint around here), and a lot of
native Sami speakers that do not know their language's word for simple
things like "flowers" and use foreign words for it instead.
If people fail their own language, would I trust them to always know what
they're talking about when they talk about unfamiliar encodings that
they've only heard about from other (possibly misguided) people?
Their historical cause of complaint, the UCS2 (16-bit) limitation, is long
since removed with UTF16 and UCS4/UTF32.
http://www.unicode.org/unicode/faq/
Q: What about the Far East support?
Unicode incorporates the characters of all the major government standards
for ideographic characters from Japan, Korea, China, and Taiwan, and more.
The Unicode Standard, Version 3.0 has almost 28,000 ideographic
characters. The Unicode Consortium actively works with the IRG committee
of ISO SC2/WG2 to define additional sets of ideographic characters for
inclusion in future versions.
