Re: Surrogate points

From: Hans Aberg (haberg@math.su.se)
Date: Thu Jan 27 2005 - 11:56:20 CST

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    At 10:57 -0800 2005/01/26, Rick McGowan wrote:
    >> Should not the in effect empty Unicode points, U+D800 to U+DFFF,
    >> as well as U+FFFE and U+FFFF, be filled with characters?

    >The codepoints are not open for encoding. They are not "empty". Their
    >interpretation is already specified in the standard.

    Their semantic interpretation is the same as that of empty slots, though
    promised not to be filled.

      Hans Aberg



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