> both ord and chr only work for characters that fit in the Basic > Multilingual Plane (this shouldn't be a problem until around 2003, when > Unicode 2.0 starts introducing characters above this)
Huh? Characters beyond the BMP (aka Plane 0, 0x0000...0xFFFF) were introduced in Unicode 3.1 (March 2001), so you are 1.1 versions and 2 years late. The current maximum code point is 0x10FFFF, so the planes 0..16 are in use (http://www.unicode.org/glossary/) -- $jhi++; # http://www.iki.fi/jhi/ # There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'. # It is 'dead'. -- Jack Cohen
