Compatibility with Unicode

[dank@blacks.jpl.nasa.gov]

You've probably already discussed this, but ...

Several major OS's appear to be comitted to using 16-bit Unicode.
Therefore the larger character set this list is discussing must be 
compatible with Unicode at least to the degree that it can be displayed 
in degraded form on Unicode PC's, and allow Unicode text to be mapped in.
Preferably this should be possible without huge lookup tables.

One solution would be to keep Unicode's Han unification, but add two bits
above and beyond Unicode to indicate the language of each
Han character.  When mapping to Unicode, these two bits could simply
be thrown away, just as upper and lower case ASCII are displayed on
an old upper-case only terminal by throwing away a single bit.
- Dan Kegel

p.s.
Borka writes:
>The editor of ISO 10 646 is Japanese - Masami Hasegava.
Does anyone have Masami Hasegava's e-mail address?