Re: and how are they encoded?

Marco Cimarosti wrote:

>
> John H. Jenkins wrote:
> > The unnecessary presence of some 12,000 precomposed hangul
> > syllables is probably the second biggest defect in the Unicode
> > repertoire.
>
> What's the first one?

A guess without looking at other answers yet: treating all the Sinitic
character sets separately?
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...