On Thu Jan 28 16:22:58 EST 2010, ge...@plan9.bell-labs.com wrote: > Yes, we only support the 16-bit runes of Unicode plane 0. That really > should be enough space, except for bungling by the Unicode Consortium.
good point. at this point only ~21829 codepoints are assigned, depending on your definition of assigned. and i agree that the unicode consortium has taken a number decisions that make life difficult (unnecessary combiners and font-encodings for math characters are my pet peeves) . but now that the decision has been made, i think it makes sense to adapt, or at least put ourselves in the position to adapt. such a principled stance doesn't help someone who needs codepoints outside the basic plane. otherwise we become the 64000 characters ought to be enough for everyone guys. - erik
