Re: Level of Unicode support required for various languages

From: vunzndi@vfemail.net
Date: Fri Oct 26 2007 - 03:43:15 CDT

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    Quoting Doug Ewell <dewell@roadrunner.com>:

    > John H. Jenkins <jenkins at apple dot com> wrote:
    >
    >>>> If the allocation of CJKV codepoints continues to be donr in this
    >>>> way, then for modern CJKV coverage will require not only BMP and
    >>>> plane 1 support but also, in the future, plane 3 suport.
    >>>
    >>> (Should be plane 2, BTW.)
    >>
    >> No, he meant plane 3. If the current explosion of extremely rare
    >> Han characters continues, we'll have to start putting them in plane
    >> 3 before long.
    >
    > I am certain that what was meant was, "If the allocation of CJKV code
    > points continues to be done in this way, then modern CJKV coverage will
    > require not only BMP and plane 2 support but also, in the future, plane
    > 3 support."
    >

    Yes precisely, and some of the plane 3 characters will be characters
    in current usage.

    John

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