On Tuesday, December 18, 2001, at 08:00 AM, Rick Cameron wrote:
> Pardon my ignorance, but what is an astral character? I can't find a > definition on the Unicode site, and Google mostly comes up with hits that > seem to have to do with Tarot! (Does this confirm the long-held suspicion > that Macs run on magic? ;^) > Ah, time it is to initiate you into the Great Mysteries. When the time came to give a general name for the characters in Unicode off the BMP, a number of suggestions were discussed. "Supplementary characters" won out; but there are those of us who still have a fond spot in our heart for the term "astral characters" and use it in preference to the official term. ========== John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/jenkins/ > >
