Re: Beyond 17 planes, was: Java char and Unicode 3.0+

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Thu Oct 16 2003 - 13:18:24 CST

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Someone calculated that at the present rate of character encoding
(1000 a year) it would take something like 700 years to fill the
whole range of characters....

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Michael Everson * * Everson Typography *  * http://www.evertype.com

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