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From: "Murata Makoto" <mura034@a...> > Unlike Rick Jelliffe, I don't agree that newly introduced CJK > ideographics are archaic. I defer to Murata-san on this. There has been a long history of Westerners not listening to Asians on standards matters and treating Asian requirements as secondary, and now that I am not being paid to advocate a view and live out of Asia, I should be careful I don't become part of the problem! Nevertheless, for a lot of companies the justication for i18n is not because of basic equity and human decency, but to allow XML-based techology to reach into major non-Latin markets and to tame the character set problem. For people with that view, there may be little marginal merit in changes. There are actually some other reasons to support extending the name repertoires to the maximum. If the characters are rare and never used; then it is only a formality that presumably cannot cause any documents or systems to fail. If the characters belong to uncomputerized societies (e.g. Cambodia?) then providing the characters can help them start from state-of-the-art, rather than having to start from behind. The IBM newline is a much more difficult issue. Cheers Rick Jelliffe Topologi
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