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

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Thu Oct 16 2003 - 16:35:40 CST


At 00:20 +0200 2003-10-17, Philippe Verdy wrote:

>Which could then be reserved for "hyper-surrogates",

We don't need them.

>referencing codepoints out of the 17 first planes, and assigned in a open
>registry for interchangeable semi-private uses,

There is no such thing.

>such as corporate logographs and other visual trademarks (including
>the famous Apple logo character in the MacRoman encoding, or the
>extra PUAs needed by Microsoft in its OpenType fonts for Office...)

No.

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