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

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Tom Lord wrote:
> Two code points represent non-characters. These are U+FFFE and
> U+FFFF. Programs are free to give these values special meaning
> internally.

Unicode (2.0 and up?) has 34 non-characters at U+xxFFFE and U+xxFFFF where xx is 00, 01, .., 0F, 10.
Unicode 3.1 is adding another 32 non-characters on the BMP. See UTR 27 for details.

markus

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