Re: Tech: Unicode (was...)
| From: | Philippe Caquant <herodote92@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, May 8, 2004, 12:56 |
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Looks like I missed something again. I had just
understood that Unicode used two bytes for encoding a
single character, which gives us 65,536 possibilities.
So how can there be 90,000 Unicode characters ? Do you
mean that the same code can be equivalent to different
glyphs ? Or that some complementary system is used (a
3rd byte ? a 4th byte ?) Or that some glyphs are just
different styles for the same character ? I'm very
confused again.
--- John Cowan <cowan@...> wrote:
>
> 1) No full-Unicode font with current technology can
> really be
> *full* Unicode: the maximum number of glyphs
> (images) in a font
> is 65535, and there are over 90,000 Unicode
> characters and still
> growing.
[snipped interesting concepts on local variations]
>
>
> Don't worry. Xerox was supplying virtual keyboards
> on its multilingual
> Star and ViewPoint workstations already in the
> 1980s.
Too bad. I'll do better next time. I wonder how these
virtual keyboard looked like ? Why can't we find them
? Only technical and cost problems, or other reasons ?
IMO, it would really be great.
=====
Philippe Caquant
"High thoughts must have high language." (Aristophanes, Frogs)
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