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> people aren't making up new symbols commonly. Ummm.... China/Japan was making up new symbols constantly. Which is why UTF-16 failed. We Westerners have small
by dragontamer 5y ago
> people aren't making up new symbols commonly.
Ummm.... China/Japan was making up new symbols constantly. Which is why UTF-16 failed. We Westerners have small alphabets and less of the image/iconography culture than the Eastern world.
I can absolutely see this "iconography" culture in China/Japan being a major reason for fax machines.
- dymk 5y agoNewspapers and nearly all print seem to do just fine with the jōyō kanji set
- throwanem 5y agoI'd expect print to standardize on a subset originating in the days of physical type and manual setting, when every character removed from the printing set would ameliorate very real costs at just about every stage of production.
- freemint 5y agoExcept when not http://www.chokanji.com/ckk/ http://www.chokanji.com/ckk/
- cygx 5y agoWhich is why UTF-16 failed To be pedantic, what failed was UCS-2, the enconding formerly known as just 'Unicode'. UTF-16 was introduced with version 2.0 of the standard and can encode all codepoints thanks to the surrogate pair mechanism.