Re: OT: Unicode 5.0
| From: | Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, January 10, 2006, 1:47 |
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On Mon, 09 Jan 2006 20:34:17 -0500, Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
wrote:
> \> > Unicode certainly has fudged a bunch of stuff up initially, and
>> > unfortunately they can't fix it now.
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>> They *could* fix it, by the same act of administrative fiat that created
>> Unicode in the first place:
>
> <cough>Ido<cough>
>
> It took an age for Unicode to even start to catch on; now that it's
> practically mainstream it would be pure foolhardiness to try to switch
> to a new standard. Everyone would cry foul and go their own way.
I'm sure that's what somebody said about 7-bit USASCII at some point, or
indeed the original Baudot codes. However, the rest of your post is well
reasoned, and well enough argued. There's always room for a sufficiently
superior method to supplant an established standard, though. I do rather
suspect the key is in the word "sufficiently", to be sure.
Paul
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