> plan 9 supports utf16. that is codpoints u+0000 — u+fffff. there is no > support for 32bit characters.
this is correct except for the use of the term utf16, which is a character encoding, not a character set. the subject line is correct - plan 9 doesn't support codes beyond the BMP. > to support larger characters, the starting point > would be changing Rune from ushort to ulong and changing constants like > UTFmax and fixing chartorune and runetochar. (and finding all the places > that assume that UTFmax really is 3.) > it's all very doable, but it would be a very invasive change. it would require recompiling everything, but i don't believe it would require changes to code beyond the utf routines in the c library. i do not believe there are many places (if any) that presume to know the value of UTFmax. russ
