Philippe Verdy <verdy_p at wanadoo dot fr> wrote: > 2. The initial spec of UTF-32 and UTF-8 by ISO allowed much more > planes with 31-bit codepoints, and may be there will be an agreement > sometime in the future between ISO and Unicode to define new > codepoints out of the current standard 17 first planes that can be > safely converted with UTF-16, or a mechanism will be specified to > allow mapping more planes to UTF-16, but this is currently not a > priority as long as there remains unallocated space in the BMP to > define new types and ranges of surrogates for "hyperplanes", something > that is still possible near the Hangul block, just before the existing > low and high surrogates).
Don't even begin to count on this. U+10FFFF will most assuredly be the upper limit as long as you and I are here to talk about it. -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
