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this information is out of date.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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