BTW, we have settled on a term for characters with code points above FFFF.
See
http://www.unicode.org/glossary/#supplementary_character
http://www.unicode.org/glossary/#supplementary_code_point
Mark
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Starner" <dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org>
To: "Unicode List" <unicode@unicode.org>
Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 07:51
Subject: Re: PDUTR #27: Unicode 3.1
> On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 01:05:23AM -0800, Mike Lischke wrote:
> > I had a quick look at it and got a question which you might be able to
> > answer. Windows cannot display UTF 32 characters, AFAIK Linux does not
> > either. So which common operating system can actually display UTF 32?
>
> If by UTF-32 characters, you mean astral or non-BMP characters, recent
> (alpha) versions of xterm can display them.
>
> --
> David Starner - dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org
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