From: jn11+@andrew.cmu.edu (Joseph M. Newcomer)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: What was the intended advantage of using 36bits CPU?
Date: 17 Oct 92 03:53:52 GMT
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

Excerpts from netnews.alt.folklore.computers: 14-Oct-92 Re: What was the
intended a.. by Charles Lasner@watsun.cc 
> >Yep, one of them is Unicode.  At least 16 bits is needed to handle the
> >various Asian languages, plus there are lots of other characters out
> >there that would be nice to have.  Right now 16 bit character support
> >is mandatory in Japan.

According to the Unicode standard, sitting on my lap right now,

0000-007F    ISO 7-bit set
0080-00FF    ISO 8859-1 (Latin1)
0100-017F    European Latin (ISO8859-2,-3,-4,-9, a.k.a. LATIN2, LATIN3,
             LATIN4, LATIN5)
0180-01FF    Extended Latin USI6438, Pinyin Lattin from PRChina GB2312,
             Japanese Standard JIS X0212 and Lapp characters ECMA Registry
             #144 under ISO2375
0250-02AF    Standard Phonetic (IPA1989)
02B0-02FF    Modifier letters used to modify the preceding letter.  Primary
             source is IPA, including modifiers such as tone modifiers for
             African languages
0300-036F    Generic diacritical marks
0370-03FF    Greek
0400-04FF    Cyrillic
0530-058F    Armenian
0590-05FF    Hebrew
0600-06FF    Arabic
0900-097F    Devanagari (classic Sanskit and modern Hindi and related langs)
0980-09FF    Bengali
0A00-0A7F    Gurmukhi (North Indian, including Punjabi)
0A80-0AFF    Gujarati (North Indian)
0B00-B07F    Oriya (North Indian)
0B80-0BFF    Tamil (South Indian)
0C00-0C7F    Telugu (South Indian)
0C80-0CFF    Kannada (South Indian)
0D00-0D7F    Malayalam (South Indian)
0E00-0E7F    Thai
0E80-0EFF    Lao
1000-105F    Tibetian
10A0-10FF    Georgian
2000-206F    General Punctuation (thin spaces, quote marks, etc.)
2070-209F    Super/Subscripts
20A0-20CF    Currency symbols
20D0-20FF    Diacritical marks for symbols
2100-214F    "Letter-like" symbols (example: Aleph used in its mathematical
             sense, which doesn't have the same left-right relation as the
             Hebrew character)
2150-218F    Number symbols (incl. vulgar fractions, Roman numerals)
2190-21FF    Arrows
2200-22FF    Mathematical operators
2300-23FF    Misc technical (APL, crop marks, something called "Bra"...)
2400-243F    Pictures for control codes
2440-245F    OCR/MICR
2460-24FF    "Enclosed Alphanumerics"
2500-257F    Form and chart components (line drawing characters)
2580-259F    Blocks
25A0-25FF    Geometric shapes
2600-26FF    Dingbats, I-Ching symbols, Moon Phases and Planets, Signs of
             the Zodiac, Chess Pieces, Card Suits, Musical Symbols
2700-27BF    Zapf Dingbats
3000-303F    CJK Symbols & Punctuation (Han symbols)
3040-309F    Hiragana (Japanese Phonetic)
30A0-30FF    Katakana (Japanese Syllabic)
3100-312F    Bopomofo (used to teach phonetics of Chinese)
3130-318F    Hangul Elements
3190-31FF    CJK Misc
3200-32FF    CJK Letters and Ideographs
3300-337F    CJK Squared Words (why not just superscript 2?)
3380-33FF    CJK Squared Abbreviations
3400-3D2F    Korean Hangul
4000-8BFF    Chinese/Japanese/Korean ideographs
E800-FDFF    Private use area (end users and software developers)
FE00-FFEF    Compatibility zone (presented for your perusal...)
FFF0-FFFD    Special (including a byte-order mark)
                                joe
Tonight seems to be my night for typing in boring tables of data...
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