An assessment of the Unicode standard

[Thorsten Kampe]

* John Machin (Sat, 29 Aug 2009 17:20:47 -0700 (PDT))
> On Aug 30, 8:46 am, r <rt8... at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Take for instance the Chinese language with it's thousands of
> > characters and BS, it's more of an art than a language.  Why do we
> > need such complicated languages in this day and time. Many languages
> > have been perfected, (although not perfect) far beyond that of
> > Chinese language.
> 
> The Chinese language is more widely spoken than English, is quite
> capable of expression in ASCII ("r tongzhi shi sha gua") and doesn't
> have those pesky it's/its problems.

You could also put it differently: the Chinese language (like any other 
language) doesn't even have "characters". It's really funny to see how 
someone who rants about Unicode doesn't event knows the most basic 
facts.

Thorsten