Subject: RE: Strings, Was: profile results for new UT_* implementations?
From: Alistair Vining (alistair.vining@ntlworld.com)
Date: Wed Jun 20 2001 - 07:57:19 CDT
Mike Nordell wrote:
>
> What are the problems? Please don't say we need more than 2^16chars.
You need 10ffff chars, give or take a few invalid values such as 0xffff etc.
http://www.unicode.org/unicode/faq/utf_bom.html
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/utfencodingforms/
Characters above 0xffff have already been assigned and are required for things like
Hong Kong Chinese.
etc. (Sorry if this wasn't the meaning of 'need' in your question)
Al.
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