On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, John Cowan wrote:
> In UCS-4/UTF-32 encoding, hypersurrogates cause a 100% growth in octet size,
> from 4 octets to 8. In UTF-8 encoding, hypersurrogates cause only a 50%
> growth, from 6 octets to 8.
I hope not! Anyone wishing to encode characters higher than U-0010ffff in
UTF-8 should do so, for the same reason that characters in planes 1
through 16 should be encoded as themselves in UTF-8, and not as a
combination of two surrogates.
-- Robert
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