Re: 10646, and all that

> sorry, I meant the above as a joke, and also as a mild complaint that the 
> excess
> capacity of a 32 bit wide character set would be looking *very* far into the
> future for further uses.
   My sources in SC2/WG2 are estimating under 12 months before we see firm
proposals for an 10646.2.  They tend to be optimistic, but, even if you
double that, "*very* far" may be a bit too strong :-)
    john