Nobody in 1989 expected to encode 92k Chinese characters into Unicode because none of the existing encodings were encoding 92k characters either. The most commo

Nobody in 1989 expected to encode 92k Chinese characters into Unicode because none of the existing encodings were encoding 92k characters either. The most common encoding for Chinese, GB2312, only has 7k characters. I recommend reading your own link, specifically the list of sources for the first CJK block to see how many characters were included and where they were sourced from.