> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Addison Phillips [wM]
> When all of the planes less than 16 are full and the possibility of > exhausting code points become actually apparent (but not before), the UTC > should reserve a range of code points in plane 16 to serve as "astral low > surrogates" and another to serve as "astral high surrogates". UTF-16 can > the > use a pair of surrogate pairs to address the higher planes thereby exposed. > And we won't all have to muck with our implementations to support this > stuff. I believe I suggested pretty much the same thing when the very same topic was discussed (to an equally fruitless end) about 5 years ago. Peter Peter Constable Globalization Infrastructure and Font Technologies Microsoft Windows Division
