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From: mohta@necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp (Masataka Ohta)
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Subject: Re: Dumb Americans (was INTERNATIONALIZATION: JAPAN, FAR EAST)
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Date: 27 Dec 92 19:26:11 GMT
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In article <CARLTON.92Dec21163548@scws8.harvard.edu>
	carlton@scws8.harvard.edu (david carlton) writes:

>I certainly wouldn't call it an insignificantly larger market.  Huge
>numbers of people use Chinese, Japanese, and other languages whose
>scripts don't fit in 8 bits, after all.

True. But, it should be noted that they don't fit even in 16 bits.

Even character sets used in a single language can not be represented
with 16 bits.

While not all characters are used in modern Japanese, Taiwan already have
a character encoding standard which contains more than 65536 Han
characters.

>Whether it is worth the
>effort to you is another matter, though;

Sure. But if you do something, do it throughly, so that you don't have
to do it twice.

						Masataka Ohta