Um, would those characters then dwell in the astral plane? No question, a much more appealing term!
Thanks - rick cameron -----Original Message----- From: John H. Jenkins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, 18 December 2001 8:09 To: Unicode List Subject: Re: Plane One use, was Re: HTML Validation 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/ > >
