as the Unicode Standards committee was just about realizing that codepoints weren't an ideal unit Where 'just about' means 1996 at the latest, the release of U

as the Unicode Standards committee was just about realizing that codepoints weren't an ideal unit Where 'just about' means 1996 at the latest, the release of Unicode 2.0 (cf chapter 5 [1], p. 21, Character Boundaries). [1] http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode2.0.0/ch05.pdf http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode2.0.0/ch05.pdf