Re: [EAI] UTF32

> Happened to see this email while searching for something else.

I was hoping you would respond...

> Unicode is certainly far from perfect, but the author of that piece is
> sadly misinformed about Unicode, certainly for East Asian languages, but
> also for his own: he's referring to "ya-phalā" — see
> http://unicode.org/faq/bengali.html#6.

+1 

The author seems not to understand the the basic principles behind character
composition in Unicode.

That said, I found the implication that Han Unification is a fairly
new thing to be amusing.

				Ned

P.S. Where's the Emoji Modifier for Vulcan skin tone? Inquiring minds want 
to know...

> Mark <https://google.com/+MarkDavis>

> *— Il meglio è l’inimico del bene —*

> On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 6:10 PM, Franck Martin <fmartin@linkedin.com> wrote:

> >
> >
> > Toute connaissance est une réponse à une question.
> >
> > > On Apr 22, 2015, at 06:32, Andrew Sullivan <ajs@anvilwalrusden.com>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > >> On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 09:21:49AM -0400, John C Klensin wrote:
> > >> Now you may be thinking about something else.  The Unicode code
> > >> space ranges only from 0 to 0x10FFFF.   A 32bit code space would
> > >> be 0 to 0xFFFFFFFF.
> > >
> > > Importantly, if that's the problem one is trying to tackle, there
> > > isn't anything the IETF can do about it.  It's fully a Unicode issue.
> > >
> > Yes, Unicode has a few problems to tackle that is not in the realm of IETF
> >
> >
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