On Jul 25, 2005, at 10:37 PM, Patrice Neff wrote:

Apart from that, it seems that Unicode is not actually able to handle 100% of Chinese (and maybe also Japanese) script. But I'm not a Unicode expert.

Unicode does not include all of the Kanji, a shared set of pictographs for Chinese and Japanese. However, the Japanese (the one I know), at least, can just drop into their Kana (Hiragana and Katakana) syllabary to "spell out" any word they can't represent with Kanji. I assume the Chinese have a similar option, though I'm not familiar with that language. However, since the average Japanese person knows a few thousand Kanji and Unicode includes way over that, I seriously doubt this is a common problem.

James Edward Gray II