Antoine Leca wrote:
> Jianping Yang wrote:
> >
> > As a matter of fact, the surrogate or supplementary character was not defined
> > in the past,
>
> How long is "the past"? I remember reading about these surrogates the first
> time I put my hands on a draft copy of ISO 10646. It was nearly six years ago.
>
Surrogate range was defined there but no character was defined in that range until
recently.
> Or do you mean that it was (or worse, still is) impossible to have PUA
> characters is some DB products... No, you cannot imply that...
>
> > so we could live without Premise B in the past. But now the
> > supplementary character is defined and will soon be supported,
>
> "Soon to be supported" will be kind for Microsoft+James Kass to hear.
>
Nothing will prevent you from storing surrogates into DB products. But here you
have to wait for the OS to provide the IM and font for them.
Regards,
Jianping.
>
> Antoine
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