Re: [9fans] Plan 9 (in)security

[okamoto@granite.cias.osakafu-u.ac.jp]

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Some says we need up to 60k chars for Japanese.   However, I must say
I don't know such huge number of Kanji which eceeds my memory capacity.
Most of 64k chars may be in very limited use such in some ancient documents
etc.  :-)  If "computer" must deal with all of those documents, yes, we may have
to have 64k chars...

The 16 bit limits will meet problem, in practical, to write person's name, some
of which are named using wrong Kanji when all Japanese were permitted
to have their own family name about 150 years ago.  ^_^  Now, we cannot say
it's wrong anymore. :-)

Sorry, this is off topic.

Kenji


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From: "Boyd Roberts" <boyd@fr.inter.net>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 (in)security
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 23:08:26 +0200
Message-ID: <001f01c100df$a4274ab0$c0b7c6d4@SOMA>

> Actually that is highly debatable -- it depends on the requirement.
> For a "rune" or wchar_t, since 16 bits are not enough to provide
> the required functionality, 32 bits is the obvious choice

iirc chinese (mandarin) has some 60k chars.  not that they're
all used, but for completness's sake yer gonna need 32 bits.

btw: to survive in japan you need ~2k chars, but most newspapers
     get by with ~6k.