The first multi-lingual plane of ISO 10 646 is equal to
UNICODE 1.1. UNICODE is pure 16 bit code system supported by UNICODE
consortium. The following companies are Unicode corporate members:
Don't forget that Japan vote NO to DIS 10646-1.2.
Japan is the only country which experienced large amount of work for
the implementations of internationalization of document processing.
Unlike ISO, the Internet should think the existence of real implementations
seriously.
We, Japanese, think, based on our experiences on implementations, that
DIS 10646-1.2 is unusable.
Unicode/ISO 10 646 is designed to meet the requirements of users in
countries that are not using the Latin alphabet as defined
in 7-bit ASCII and Internet is a global world network. Here in Europe
where we are using just the Latin alphabet we are facing with many
problems just becuase the curent Internet world is 7-bit ASCII.
Europeans have once failed to InterEuropeanize thier character set.
ISO 8859 should have been 16 bits but they were mislead by false
economy and choosed multiple 8-bit sets.
Don't you think that the time has come for Internet to migrate
to 2x8-bit bytes?
Now, you think that they can use ISO 10646 with only 16 bits?
Well, it's good for InterEuropeanization, but not for Internationalization.
ISO 10646 should be used as 32 bits.
Even then, 10646 is still unusable and much more improvements are necessary.
Masataka Ohta