Re: RE : Re: [tlug] "strange antipathy towards Unicode" . . . . . . . . (was: Re: Learn a Variety of Languages)

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

Curt Sampson writes:

 > I think it's a lot better to have your average database-backed web site,
 > with a minimal amount of Internationalization work, handle all but an
 > infitesimal portion of common Japanese

And remember that the reason that Unicode cannot handle that
infinitesimal portion of "common Japanese" is because the Japanese
standards body refuses to include it.  Basically, any character that
JIS standardizes will go into Unicode within the year.