>UTF-16 provides the extension capability that David Beroff asks for.
>
>Re UTF-16 and its 1 million characters, TrueType fonts are fundamentally
>limited to a maximum of 65536 characters (the CharSet to glyph tables use
>16-bit indices). So it appears that some kind of font linking will be needed
>to support UTF-16 with TrueType fonts.
>
>Murray
>-----Original Message-----
From: unicode@Unicode.ORG [SMTP:unicode@Unicode.ORG]
Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 1996 1:26 PM
To: unicode@Unicode.ORG
Subject: Fwd: Wired 4.09 p. 130: Lost in Translation
Hi. This was sent to me in response to the article in Wired -- I told
him
I THINK 2.0 supports variable length, but you would be better able to
answer him
Thanks,
Subject: Wired 4.09 p. 130: Lost in Translation
Sent: 08/27 11:54 PM
Received: 08/28 12:22 AM
From: David Beroff, d4b@inet.bis.adp.com
To: Jose Manuel Tesoro, joel@iohk.com
CC: d4b@inet.bis.adp.com
Interesting 16-bit vs. 32-bit issue for
characters. (I guess nobody seriously
considered 24-bit characters?)
Anyway, I have an even more radical idea.
Could Unicode support variable-length
characters, so that one or more Unicode
values would mean "shift"? This would
allow quite a number of Chinese (etc.)
characters to be represented in the
second Unicode byte-pair.
Or am I being way too whimsical?
-- David Beroff <d4b@bis.adp.com>
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