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From: Alex Danilo <alex@ish...>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 (in)security
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 09:23:51 GMT

The two 16-bit words are for the surrogate area.
Unicode 3.1 is out - and there are 44,496 new characters, giving 94,140
total glyphs.
So, yes 16 bits is not enough.  However 32 bit representations are
discouraged - UTF16
is the way to go if you have to leave UTF8.

Alex

"Douglas A. Gwyn" wrote:

> Richard Elberger wrote:
> > ...  Perhaps once it is all catalogued and
> > accepted into unicode, 16 bits will not be enough.
>
> 16 bits was never enough, and currently the Windows world
> is scrambling to change from UCS-2 (old "16-bit Unicode")
> to UTF-16, which occasionally uses two 16-bit words for
> certain characters.  This is an active topic of discussion
> in the WG14 reflector.