Re: Level of Unicode support required for various languages

"Andrew West" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.text.unicode.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 31/10/2007, Mark E. Shoulson <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> [email protected] wrote:
> > The minimum is likely to be about 30 thousand, to be honest nobody
> > knows what the upper limit is, but 100k would not be inconceivable.
>
> I knew that dropping planes 17-65535 was a bad idea!

Why? We have 11 complete planes free. Let's be really generous and
give two more to CJKV and Zhuang etc., two to Old Hanzi, one to
Egyptian hieroglyphs, and a couple to Mesoamerican writing systems.
Then we've still got four planes (quarter of a million characters)
left for Atlantean and Martian.

Andrew
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