Re:Ruby 1.9 made me remember how I hate the concept of encod...
by sanxiyn on Thursday May 13, 2010 @11:58AM
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Re: characters not covered by Unicode (or BMP). Yes, they exist, but they are red herrings. Unregistered characters will always be with us. I fully guarantee that. But for vast range of applications, Unicode does work.
I am from Korea, and one of the treasure of this country is Tripitaka Koreana, compilation of Buddhist texts carved in the 13th century. It is 52,382,960 characters long, Wikipedia tells me. There is a whole institute devoted to this document. This institute started to encode it in machine readable form from 1993 and completed the first draft in 2000. In the process they discovered 23,385 new letterforms not registered anywhere. There are many such encoding projects yet to be completed. So yeah, Unicode won't cover everything. That is given. And that's okay.
I am from Korea, and one of the treasure of this country is Tripitaka Koreana, compilation of Buddhist texts carved in the 13th century. It is 52,382,960 characters long, Wikipedia tells me. There is a whole institute devoted to this document. This institute started to encode it in machine readable form from 1993 and completed the first draft in 2000. In the process they discovered 23,385 new letterforms not registered anywhere. There are many such encoding projects yet to be completed. So yeah, Unicode won't cover everything. That is given. And that's okay.