UTF-16

Posted Mar 31, 2010 4:35 UTC (Wed) by j16sdiz (guest, #57302)
In reply to: UTF-16 by spacehunt
Parent article: Resetting PHP 6

> > Are you seriously claiming that top-to-bottom is "the clearly preferable" writing mode for modern Chinese
speakers because that's what you saw being used in a restaurant menu?

> It may not be "clearly preferable", but it certainly is still widely used at least in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Japan.
Just go to any bookstore or newspaper stand in these three places and see for yourself.

As a Chinese living in Hong Kong I can tell you this:
Most of the Chinese characters are in BMP. Some of those outside BMP are used in Hong Kong, but they are not
as important as you think -- most of them can be replaced with something in BMP (and that's how we have been
doing this before the HKSCS standard)

And yes, you can have Confucius in BMP. (Just like how you have KJV bible in latin1 -- replace those long-S
with th, and stuff like that)