Re: [Proposal] Extended UTF-16 by using Plane 14

From: Roozbeh Pournader (roozbeh@sina.sharif.ac.ir)
Date: Sun Apr 18 1999 - 02:36:10 EDT


Mark Davis wrote:
>
> - Since only private use characters are encoded as surrogates now, there
> is no market pressure for implementation yet. It will probably be a
> couple of years before surrogates are fully supported by a variety of
> platforms.
>

Wrong! See http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr7.html.
In short, Plane 14 is used for tags, e.g. language tags.

--Roozbeh



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