> > And most (but not all) Unicode string implementations use UTF-16.
> 
> A disadvantage of UTF-16 is that character predicates like
> char-alphabetic? break for characters above U+FFFF.
> 
> Since this breakage is rare in practice, programs usually don't care.
> They are only subtly wrong.

I'm not sure what you mean. char-alphabetic? is well defined; the encoding 
doesn't matter. There's a good overview of Unicode concepts and 
terminology at http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode4.0.0/ch03.pdf.

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