Re: Last Call: UTF-16, an encoding of ISO 10646 to Informational

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just a technical response: utf-16 encodes unicode/ucs characters with abstract
values <0x110000, or 17 planes. you need 21b for that. if you care for partial
bits, it is more like 20.1b (ld(0x110000) :-).

markus

keld@dkuug.dk on 99-08-16 07:43:47

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Subject: Re: Last Call: UTF-16, an encoding of ISO 10646 to Informational

...
is misleading), possible technical errors (saying that UTF-16
can be represented in 20 bit is possibly an error, as UTF-16 can
encode 17 planes - plane 0 to 16 - I am not sure of this one, but
this is my recollection), some wording that could be improved, and
...

Kind regards
Keld Simonsen

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