From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jim Choate To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 (in)security In-Reply-To: <20010702013732.14EBA19A1A@mail.cse.psu.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2001 21:03:34 -0500 Topicbox-Message-UUID: c25903c8-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Don't simply re-create the errors of the past. Plan for the future. Don't futz around with 64k of char, go for something like 32 bits or even 64 so that even in the future there won't be a significant effect as the languages we use grow. On Mon, 2 Jul 2001 okamoto@granite.cias.osakafu-u.ac.jp wrote: > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > --upas-nuiiuxxrfozmxljuvcjoshbuyt > Content-Disposition: inline > > 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. :-) -- ____________________________________________________________________ Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent. Ludwig Wittgenstein The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage@ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------