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   RE: [xml-dev] [About Unicode] Why the symbol LOGICAL NOT is missing from

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> I can't comment on the usability of any alphabet other than Latin, but
> is it "fair" that Chinese ideograms chew up tens of thousands of code
> points in Unicode? 

It's balanced by the unfairness that Latin letters only occupy one byte in
UTF-8, whereas Chinese ideograms occupy three or four.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/






 

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