Re: Unicode, character ambiguities

[Tomohiro KUBOTA <tkubota@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

At 10 Jan 2002 10:02:21 -0800,
H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > I think there are a few more examples.  It is difficult to
> > show "all" examples, like it is difficult for a native English
> > speaker to show "all" verbs (s)he knows.  It is also difficult
> > even for me to list "all" irregular English verbs (like
> > go-went-gone and come-came-come).  However, I feel the number
> > of examples would be very small.
> > 
> 
> If so, that would imply the number of code points would also be very
> small, and that it wouldn't be a major loss to assign code points to
> them.  Would you agree?

No, I had to add that one "example" may mean hundreds of characters,
because one radical may be shared by hundreds of characters.

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