[Reader-list] Why Unicode Won't work

[pankaj at sarai.net]

Found this on slashdot.:

UCS-2 (ISO 10646-1) , has been widely
assumed to be a comprehensive solution for electronically mapping all the
characters of the world's languages, being a 16-bit character definition
allowing a theoretical total of over 65,000 characters. However, the
complete character sets of the world add up to approximately 170,000
characters. This paper summarizes the political turmoil and technical
incompatibilities that are beginning to manifest themselves on the Internet
as a consequence of that oversight. (For the more technical: the recently
announced Unicode 3.1 won't work either.)" 

Read the <full article> http://www.hastingsresearch.com/net/04-unicode-limitations.shtml

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