From: Hans Aberg (haberg@math.su.se)
Date: Sat Apr 23 2005 - 15:30:03 CST
At 21:24 +0200 2005/04/23, Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk wrote:
> > The limit of number of Unicode code points is due to design flaw
>> in the UTF-16 encoding, where the engineers who did it failed to
>> properly separate the notions of character numbers and integer-to-binary
>> encoding. If one makes that separation, it is easy to extend the
>> ranges to even to infinity, if one so likes.
>
>My orthography for Polish can consume an infinite number of characters
>if I treat it like Hangul was treated and encode precomposed characters
>individually. Ok, I'm taking all odd numbers, so even ones are left
>for other scripts :-)
More sophisticated computer software would not encode all the
characters individually. :-)
-- Hans Aberg
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