From: John H. Jenkins (jenkins@apple.com)
Date: Thu Oct 14 2010 - 11:09:10 CDT
On Oct 14, 2010, at 4:12 AM, William_J_G Overington wrote:
> What is the position regarding the 32-bit code point space above U+10FFFF please?
>
Its use is incompatible with Unicode. Fundamentally, it cannot be represented using UTF-16 (without a major rearchitecture), so it doesn't exist.
> Does the Unicode Consortium and/or ISO or indeed anyone else make any claims upon it?
>
Yes, the claim is that if you use it, you're generating invalid Unicode.
Don't do it, don't contemplate it, don't think about it.
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John H. Jenkins
jenkins@apple.com
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