In a message dated 2002-01-02 5:05:23 Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> There are worse things than thi: what if someone discovers a script with > more than 1,114,111 characters? Back to the drawing board to redesign all > the UTF's! Not all of them. UTF-8 and UTF-32, at least, already have the architecture to represent 2^31 and 2^32 code points, respectively. The definitions would simply have to changed to make the additional code points legal. Only UTF-16 would truly need to be redesigned, and that has already been proposed. For example, Masahiko Maedera once proposed a "UTF-16x" in which code points in the U+EExxx block were designated as "super surrogates." Three of these "super surrogates," or six 16-bit words, would be combined to represent code points beyond plane 17. (This was back in the days when some people felt that a great and crippling schism existed between Unicode and ISO 10646 because the former disallowed such code points and the latter allowed them.) -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California
