From: Andrew West (andrewcwest@gmail.com)
Date: Fri Oct 26 2007 - 11:31:12 CDT
On 26/10/2007, Mike <mike-list@pobox.com> wrote:
> > 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."
>
> I'm uncertain as to what the problem being discussed is. Once you have
> support for plane 2, you automatically support plane 3 (and planes 4, 5,
> 6, etc.) at least from an encoding perspective (UTF-xx).
You would have thought so, wouldn't you? But it is not always so.
For example the Word 2007 Insert Symbol dialog allows you to enter
characters from Plane 1 (SMP) and Plane 2 (SIP) but not Plane 14 (SSP)
or Planes 15-16 (SPUA-A/B).
<http://blogs.msdn.com/michkap/archive/2006/09/03/737553.aspx>
Presumably when (not if) characters are encoded in Plane 3 the Office
suite will have to be upgraded before it will allow users to enter
Plane 3 characters using the Insert Symbol dialog.
Andrew
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