Re: Level of Unicode support required for various languages

In 10/25/07, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
> I aaware that the original aim of unicode was to have all 'useful'
> characters in the BMP.  However as far as CJKV characters are concerned
> this has not been done, rather characters have been added on a first
> come first serve basis.

The character set standards of China, Taiwan, Japan and Korea were
completely included in the BMP. The sets of characters that computer
users of CJKV characters were actually using are all in the BMP. That
was not a first come, first serve policy. Unicode continued to add the
characters that the standards bodies of those nations thought were
important to the BMP for several years. It was not a first come, first
serve basis.

> If the allocation of CJKV codepoints continues
> to be donr in this way, then for modern CJKV coverage will require not
> only BMP and plane 1 support but also, in the future, plane 3 suport.

(Should be plane 2, BTW.)

If it continues to be done in what way? They currently have teams of
experts sorting through the body of writing in Han ideographs, finding
new distinct ideographs, and identifying what most needs encoding.
Short of God handing the next set of Han ideographs down from Mt.
Sinai on stone tablets, I don't know what improvements can be made.