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Jonathan Robie wrote: > Elliotte Harold wrote: >> If we were to issue a new version of XML now, then Unicode 5.0 would >> suffice for all our lifetimes and likely way beyond. In fact, Unicode >> 3.0 pretty much took care of the last cases anyone is ever remotely >> likely to need. > > Is that true? Khmer and Mongolian are very much living languages, the > Wikipedia article on Amharic suggests that it uses Ethiopic characters, > new material in Cherokee has been showing up on the Web in Unicode, and > Canadian Syllabics seem to be used for a wide variety of Cree languages. > Yes it is. These languages were covered in Unicode 3. Unicode 4 added very little and Unicode 5 even less. Unless we discover a lost civilization at the center of the earth, there's simply not a big store of written languages left to encode. It's a little unfortunate that Unicode 3 postdated XML 1.0. Otherwise this would all be a non-issue. -- Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo@m... Java I/O 2nd Edition Just Published! http://www.cafeaulait.org/books/javaio2/ http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0596527500/ref=nosim/cafeaulaitA/
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