What about F0000? I was told that there are 0x10FFFF
possible characters?
Oh, by the way, if 12 is a dozen and 144 is a gross,
what are 16 and 256?
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---- Kenneth Whistler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Mark responded reconditely:
>
> >
> > I ALY FND ANMs HRD2 DL WTH. WD PFR NML WDS.
> >
> > Michael Everson wrote:
> >
> > > Ar 07:53 -0800 2000-07-11, scríobh John H.
> Jenkins:
> > >
> > > >At the same time, it would be nice to have
> a Unicodally correct way
> > > >of referring to planes 1 and 2, since there
> is an important boundary
> > > >between them.
> > >
> > > Just use the acronyms BMP, SMP, and SIP.
> > >
>
> From the practice that is developing in the relevant
> committees,
> and the discussion on this list, it would appear
> that the
> practical consensus seems to be heading towards:
>
> 0000.. FFFF "The BMP"
> 10000..1FFFF "Plane 1"
> 20000..2FFFF "Plane 2"
> E0000..EFFFF "Plane 14"
>
> Those are in fact the terms that most people are
> using. It is quite
> unlikely that "SMP" and "SIP" and "SPP" are going
> to catch on
> very widely, given the difficulty of keeping them
> straight, or
> separate from other TLA's and FLA's like SMTP,
> TCPIP, etc. (SPP
> also means Southwest Power Pool, Science and Policy
> Programs,
> School of Public Policy, Society for Philosophy
> and Psychology,
> Student Protector Plan, Sandy's Pattern Pantry,
> Self-Publishing Partners,
> and the Santiago Park Plaza...) "Plane 14" is actually
> a *much* better
> term -- if you do an Internet search on that, all
> the pertinent
> Unicode-related stuff actually pops right up to
> the top of the search.
>
> And despite Mark's disclaimer about the validity
> of any boundaries
> past the FFFF / 10000 boundary, the Plane boundaries
> do have some
> importance. They are likely to figure prominently
> in trie structures
> for accessing properties of characters past FFFF;
> the planes themselves
> have some uniformity of their properties, since
> different things
> are being isolated to Plane 2 or Plane 14 as opposed
> to Plane 1.
>
> Also, in favor of John Cowan's terminology, one
> might also note
> that all of the "Astral Planes" are self-naming
> by their initial
> hex digit.
>
> --Ken
>
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