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[Per Bothner]

> The Chinese are currently in the process of defining planes 3 and 4 (I
> think). These will cover Chinese name characters (i.e. runes used to
> give names to people and places). The Unicode Han Unification got rid
> of those characters, much to the inconvenience of CJK users who can't
> even make an employee database in Unicode since you cannot accurately
> enter names.

That is not my impression.  I thought it was a question of adding a
bunch of really obscure characters from old documents.  The characters
in current use, including the ones used for "employee names", are
already pretty well covered by Unicode, I believe.

After all, it seems reasonable that:
a) Names of people are not going to use characters so obscure you
can't find them on typical Chinese word-processing equipment.
b) Bureaucracies are't going to mess with over 10k characters.
c) Unicode is based on the unification of *pre-existing Chinese
character encoding standards", which presumably have worked
pretty well.

	--Per Bothner
Cygnus Solutions     bothner@cygnus.com     http://www.cygnus.com/~bothner