"Marcin" == Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk <qrczak@knm.org.pl> writes:
Marcin> 30 Sep 2001 22:28:52 +0900, Jens Petersen <petersen@redhat.com> pisze: >> 16 bits is enough to describe the Basic Multilingual Plane >> and I think 24 bits all the currently defined extended >> planes. [...] Just for reference... "currently" is the important word here. [Snipped interesting and (hopefully) enlightening stuff about Unicode and marketing] Marcin> IMHO it would have been better to not invent UTF-16 at all Marcin> and use UTF-8 in parallel with UTF-32. But Unicode used to Marcin> promote UTF-16 as the real Unicode, and now it causes so Marcin> many threads on Unicode list to clear the confusion about Marcin> the nature of characters above U+FFFF. IMPPOO is would have been (and would still be) better to simply say "Here's UTF-8, and ISO 10646 is 31 bits, encoded as real 32 bit units or as UTF-8". That's the baseline. None of that "But 21 bits *is* enough". Yeah, like 640K was enough. And countless other examples. I thought we had learned, but I was wrong... I'm especially disheartened to hear that ISO bought into the same crap. Bye, J PS: Yep, this has been an entirely off-topic rant. I simply couldn't resist the urge, the need, to vent a bit. -- Jürgen A. Erhard (juergen.erhard@gmx.net, jae@users.sf.net) My WebHome: http://jerhard.org SPACE: Above And Beyond (http://www.planetx.com/space:aab) I have a firm grip on reality, now I can strangle it.