Re: Unicode, Cure-all or Kill-all?

From: Kenneth Whistler (kenw@sybase.com)
Date: Mon Aug 12 1996 - 15:05:53 EDT


>>With UTF-16, Unicode has a codespace of about 1000000 codepoints.
>>That's enough for at least the next 500 years.
>
> Question 1) When? 2) Is that ISO 4? 3) Is it 256 x 256 x256 x256?

When: Now. It is part of Unicode 2.0, which is an accepted standard.

Is that ISO 4?: I assume you mean UCS-4 in ISO 10646. No. It is
           UTF-16 in ISO 10646.

Is it 256 x 256 x 256 x 256? No. It is 1024 x 1024, transformable to
           UCS-4 code points at U-00010000 to U-0010FFFF.

--Ken Whistler



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