Graeme Geldenhuys schrieb:
On 2011-10-20 17:30, Luca Olivetti wrote:
"Additionally, 16 bits is enough to cover the BMP, Basic Multilingual
Plane, which encompasses the majority of today's most widely used
languages. Only when you get to more advanced codepoints in some of the
far-eastern languages, or are needing to encode dead languages such as
Egyption hieroglyphics do you need more than 16 bits."
That is such a rubbish statement! More and more information is being
added outside the Unicode's BMP. Emoticons, Science and Maths symbols,
Map Symbols (often seen in GPS applications), Music notes etc etc.
Now also tell us how application code is affected by such astral
codepoints, and how these are handled easier in UTF-8 than in UTF-16.
DoDi
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