Keld writes:
My point is that Mnemonics have got CJK support and that these mnemonics
are good enough to be of use to JIS (the Japanese member body of ISO).
To be fair, you should also mention that the Japanese have been
demanding the ability to use Japanese character codes in POSIX charmap
comments, precisely because the mnemonics are unreadable for Japanese.
Another minor point, just for your info: the Japanese member body of
ISO is called JISC, not JIS.
Finally, I should point out that all of this has very little to do
with email. I believe that the Japanese will continue to use their
form of ISO 2022 in email, and the mnemonic method is useless for
Japanese email.
But it is wonderful for many alphabetic languages!
Cheers,
EvdP