Re: tlug: JISx0208

["J. David Beutel" <jdb@example.com>]

On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, Peter Linsley wrote:

> This will bring in a new standard which will render 
> JISx0212 virtually obsolete (?) and will sit next to JISx0208 
> creating JIS Levels 1,2,3 and 4 in two standards. The new standard
> will cover all those unusual kanji used to name things like remote 
> villages in Hokkaido, and consists of around 5000 characters; it
> will *not* be a supplement set like 0212.

Oh goody!  "The nice thing about standards is that 
there are so many to choose from."  Just what I needed!

But seriously, I wonder how this will impact Unicode.
Currently Unicode contains a unique mapping for all the
JIS kanji, but how many of the new 5000 are in there?

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