On Mon, 2 Jun 2014 15:09:21 -0700 David Starner <prosfil...@gmail.com> wrote:
> So certain programs can't use noncharacters internally because some > people want to interchange them? That doesn't seem like what > noncharacters should be used for. Much as I don't like their uninvited use, it is possible to pass them and other undesirables through most applications by a slight bit of recoding at the application's boundaries. Using 99 = (3 + 32 + 64) PUA characters, one can ape UTF-16 surrogates and encode: 32 × 64 pairs for lone surrogates 1 × 64 pairs to replace some of the PUA characters 1 × 35 pairs to replace the rest of the PUA characters 1 × 4 pairs for incoming FFFC to FFFF 1 × 32 pairs for the other BMP non-characters 1 × 32 pairs for the supplementary plane non-characters. This then frees up non-characters for the application's use. Richard. _______________________________________________ Unicode mailing list Unicode@unicode.org http://unicode.org/mailman/listinfo/unicode
