[unicode] Re: UCS-2 Files

From: Pierpaolo BERNARDI (bernardp@cli.di.unipi.it)
Date: Tue Mar 27 2001 - 09:15:56 EST

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On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Roozbeh Pournader wrote:

> (And for those Knuth fans out there, yes I know that he has introduced
> MMIX now, that even adopts Unicode in the identifiers and strings of its
> assembly language, MMIXAL,

But, if I remember correctly, he only allows the 1st plane.
So, even Knuth felt prey of the 'Unicode is 16 bit' myth.

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