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

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To: "'William J. Kammerer'" <wkammerer@novannet.com>,<xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
Subject: RE: [xml-dev] [About Unicode] Why the symbol LOGICAL NOT is missing from the UCS ?
From: "Michael Kay" <mike@saxonica.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 12:54:17 -0000
In-reply-to: <05a301c520b6$ecfc46a0$c970fea9@CMHNovannet>
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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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- But is it fair? - An exploration of alphabets and ideograms
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