> Yes, but the specification allows for 6byte sequences, or 32bit > characters.
UTF-8 is just an encoding specification, not character set specification. Unicode only has 17 256x256 planes in its specification. > As dennis pointed out, just because they're not used, doesn't mean we > should not allow them to be stored, since there might me someone using > the high ranges for a private character set, which could very well be > included in the specification some day. We should expand it to 64-bit since some day the specification might be changed then:-) More seriously, Unicode is filled with tons of confusion and inconsistency IMO. Remember that once Unicode adovocates said that the merit of Unicode was it only requires 16-bit width. Now they say they need surrogate pairs and 32-bit width chars... Anyway my point is if current specification of Unicode only allows 24-bit range, why we need to allow usage against the specification? -- Tatsuo Ishii ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend
