On 14 Nov 2011, at 15:30, Naena Guru wrote: > Unicode was created for a commercial reason, particularly for the benefit of > its directors.
This is incorrect. > The idea of Plain Text is not anything practical but was used as a means of > attracting supporters, who for the most part hadn't had any experience with > computers. I am not the purist some are, but nevertheless I disagree with this quite strongly. > The following line is Unicode text: > මේ අකුරු ලියා ඇත්තේ යුනිකෝඩ් අකුරෙනි. > > I bet most of you see it as a row of Character-not-found glyph. I see Sinhala text. Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
