Update #1 on new std.uni

[Walter Bright]

On 1/16/2013 12:16 PM, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
> Nothing I can cure here. And they know what they do but have a boatload of
> legacy crap that has to crawl on. Just recall the time where everybody thought
> that 16-bit codes should be enough for everybody. When they gradually took the
> whole world of writing systems into account things got dirty, awfully so.
>
> After learning a lot about Unicode I'd say they managed to do the job just fine
> given the constraints. I, for one, wouldn't even dare to try to reinvent *these*
> wheels. A lot of stuff could have been smoothed and simplified but overall -
> it's complex because the writing systems are utterly irregular plus the
> backwards compatibility has taken its toll.

I guess I have to accept it :-)

And thanks for taking on this pretty much impossible task.