None of that "But 21 bits *is* enough". Yeah, like 640K was enough. And countless other examples.

That is not comparable. Never was.

I thought we had learned, but I was wrong... I'm especially disheartened to hear that ISO bought into the same crap.

Who's going to invent all these gazillions of as-yet-unencoded characters do you think? I'll be expecting a proposal from *you* detailing the the first few 100000 new characters or so, each with extensive and convincing documentation that they are used as the basic elements of writing in a known community. ;-) Kind regards /kent k