Um, would those characters then dwell in the astral plane?
No question, a much more appealing term!
Thanks
- rick cameron
-----Original Message-----
From: John H. Jenkins [mailto:jenkins@apple.com]
Sent: Tuesday, 18 December 2001 8:09
To: Unicode List
Subject: Re: Plane One use, was Re: HTML Validation
On Tuesday, December 18, 2001, at 08:00 AM, Rick Cameron wrote:
> Pardon my ignorance, but what is an astral character? I can't find a
> definition on the Unicode site, and Google mostly comes up with hits
> that seem to have to do with Tarot! (Does this confirm the long-held
> suspicion that Macs run on magic? ;^)
>
Ah, time it is to initiate you into the Great Mysteries.
When the time came to give a general name for the characters in Unicode
off the BMP, a number of suggestions were discussed. "Supplementary
characters" won out; but there are those of us who still have a fond spot
in our heart for the term "astral characters" and use it in preference to
the official term.
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