On Wed, 13 Sep 2000 19:49:32 Matt Sergeant wrote:
On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Philip Newton wrote:
Until someone extends the Unicode character set beyond the current range,
UCS-2 and UTF-16 currently have a one to one mapping. I assume thats the
point being made. An excerpt from the book I'm currently tech reviewing:
...
Since no software
currently supports or produces surrogate pairs, and since no scripts
are encoded in Unicode with code points above 65,535 the
distinction between UCS-2 and UTF-16 is mostly academic at this
point in time.
The Unicode Consortium has approved about 43,000 characters in the surrogate
area. They are awaiting ISO approval. I don't know of any implementations, but
in any case this information is out of date.
See:
http://www.unicode.org/unicode/alloc/Pipeline.html
=Ed
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