Re: An Aburdly Brief Introduction to Unicode (was Re: Perception ...)

From: Peter_Constable@sil.org
Date: Thu Feb 22 2001 - 13:31:43 EST

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On 02/21/2001 11:15:45 PM Tom Lord wrote:

> Absurdly Brief Introduction to Unicode
[snip]
> Some Special Code Points
[snip]
>Two code points represent non-characters. These are U+FFFE and
>U+FFFF. Programs are free to give these values special meaning
>internally.

There are, in fact, 66 of these non-characters. U+xxFFFE and U+xxFFFF
account for 34; the other 32 are at U+FDD0..U+FDEF.

- Peter

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