Re: command_line() help
On 17 Jul 2001, at 16:25, Derek Parnell wrote:
> >
> > The Chinese and some others were told to forget using
> > thousands of chars
> > because 16bits wouldn't hold them. Then came 32bit unicode,
> > and because
> > of the way it was implemented, it won't hold them all either.
> > Rather rude of
> > the US designers to tell people they can't spell their names
> > on the puter
> > properly, in my opinion.
>
> Hi Kat,
> I didn't know this.
> >From my reading I understood that all the 4 billion-odd Unicode characters
> could be implemented.
The 32 bits isn't "flat", it's "segmented" like cpu address space in dos mode.
I don't know the segment size, but from what i understand, each language
gets one segment whether it needs far more or far less.
> I know that certain subsets of the the various Chinese
> character sets have been standardized, and I don't think that there are any
> commonly used Chinese characters that are not defined. There may be some
> archaric forms that have not yet been codified, but there doesn't seem to be
> anything stopping that process except time.
Well, except for the lack of space in the 32bits as they are laid out now. In
terms of complexity, not even the 32bits of data is "flat", it's 2 16bit words,
manipulated separately and differently.
> I'm amused to see some ancient scripts have been planned for (Linear-B,
> Cuniform, Minoan, Mayan, Phoenecian, Hieroglyphic).
Maybe they have changed it.... i haven't been following closely.
Kat
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