I will say that if the 16 bit 10646 is not going to do the job, then what are
we
to do---would you advocate a 32 bit character set?
32 bit set of ISO 10646 is identical to 16 bit one.
Perhaps we could use the
extra capacity to support extraterestrial linguistics :-o
If we can use the extra capacity arbitrary, we can. I have even designed
a one. But it is not ISO, of course. You can't call it ISO 10646.
Please answer the following:
-Is it unreasonable to expect a user to recognize that the
software has miss-rendered some characters as Han, which should
have been Kanji?
It depends.
-Has anyone attempted to study just how often this sort of error
would occur in typical mail?
Now? ISO 10646 is not used yet. So, how can anyone study it?
I would hope that you would agree with me that it is not unreasonable to
expect
a uer to see the error,
What? "expect a user to see the error"? Haven't you misordered words?
A user expect to see no error.
That's the reasonable behaviour of users.
Still, I dont see 10646 as an impossible-to-live-with thing, but maybe it will
need some additional mechanism for complete disambiguation of the folded
characters.
Could you please, please, understand that that's exactly what I
have proposed with "charset"?
Masataka Ohta