For a nice detailed explanation of the problems in unicode, take a look
at http://www.personal-media.co.jp/vs/mltp96/keynote/keynote_e.html. It's
a paper by Ken Sakamura from the university of Tokyo on multilingual
computing. It's actually a paper promoting their well known TRON project,
but details the inadequacies of unicode.
> Most people have objections to decisions made in Unicode. This
> is inevitable in a standard of this size, on a subject that
> raises such emotions. Many of the perceived inconsistencies
> arise from the need to convert losslessly from other encodings
> to Unicode and back.
This is only part of the problem; as I stated before many of the
unifications are apparently nonsensical.
And I still wish the FTP-WG would get their head out of their ... when it
comes to encodings.
-Dan