RE: Latin w/ diacritics (was Re: benefits of unicode)

From: Marco Cimarosti (marco.cimarosti@essetre.it)
Date: Tue May 22 2001 - 05:22:32 EDT

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11 Digit Boy asked:
> Why does Unicode only have space for 1114112 glyphs?

BMP = 256 × 256 = 65536
HI_SURROGS = 1024
LO_SURROGS = 1024

UNICODE = BMP + HI_SURROGS × LO_SURROGS = 1114112

Notice, however that they are characters, not glyphs. Also notice that they
are slightly fewer than 1.114.112, because some values are forbidden by
design.

_ Marco

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