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08/21/2001 Archived Entry: "21-August-2001 -- Why Unicode Won't Work on the Internet"

Why Unicode Won't Work on the Internet -- "Unicode, the semi-commercial equivalent of UCS-2 (ISO 10646-1), has been widely assumed to be a comprehensive solution for electronically mapping all the characters of the world's languages, being a 16-bit character definition allowing a theoretical total of over 65,000 characters. However, the complete character sets of the world add up to over 170,000 characters. This paper summarizes the political turmoil and technical incompatibilities that are beginning to manifest themselves on the Internet as a consequence of that oversight." (Comments: I post stuff like this once in a while so that I can find it at a later time. It might come in handy.)

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