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Re: Fwd: Last Call: UTF-16, an encoding of ISO 10646 to Proposed

From: MURATA Makoto <murata.makoto@fujixerox.co.jp>
Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1999 16:06:44 +0900
To: Harald Tveit Alvestrand <Harald@Alvestrand.no>
Cc: Kenneth Whistler <kenw@sybase.com>, ietf-charsets@iana.org, kenw@sybase.com, mark.davis@us.ibm.com
Message-id: <199912180706.AA03688@archlute.fujixerox.co.jp> 
Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:
> See http://www.unicode.org/pending/pending.html
> It's entirely possible that all commonly used scripts will be encoded in 
> Plane 0 (if those who fight for traditional Chinese and more precomposed 
> characters give up), but I don't think it's likely that ISO will abandon 
> Plane 1.

Even Japanese textbooks for junior high school chemistry require "traditional 
Chinese and more precomposed characters".  Non-BMP characters are absolutely 
necessary.

Makoto
 
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