On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 07:21:45PM -0400, James Mastros wrote: > On Sat, 20 Oct 2001, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: > > 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/)
> Whoops. What I meant was that characters requiring surrogate pairs aren't > supported. According to http://www.unicode.org/unicode/faq/utf_bom.html, > there are none currently assigned. I think surrogates are a meaningul term only for UTF-16 (for UTF-8 or UTF-32 surrogates aren't needed): 0xD800..0xDFFF are used to encode the code points between 0x10000 and 0x10FFFF. And since there most definitely are code points assigned to characters in that range since Unicode 3.1, I think that remark in the Unicode FAQ must be talking about Unicode 3.0. -- $jhi++; # http://www.iki.fi/jhi/ # There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'. # It is 'dead'. -- Jack Cohen
