Re: explicit 20 bit Unicode range limit

From: Michael Everson (everson@indigo.ie)
Date: Wed Jan 27 1999 - 04:31:49 EST


Rick said:

>What actual problems does the proposal solve that outweigh all the required
>paperwork? What's wrong with using a 32-bit container if you want to
>normalize UTF-16 to avoid surrogate encoding?

Isn't that what I said earlier about 10646.

One would rather see implementations than more theory.

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