Would it be useful to have one term for planes 1-16 and another for all
planes above the BMP? Perhaps the former are astral and the latter
celestial. ;^)
(I'm half-serious, since according to my suggestion UTF-16 can encode all
astral characters, but not all celestial ones!)
Cheers
- rick
-----Original Message-----
From: Hohberger, Clive [mailto:CHohberger@zebra.com]
Sent: Tuesday, 18 December 2001 9:05
To: Unicode List
Subject: RE: Plane One use, was Re: HTML Validation
The allusion to Tarot isn't entirely specious! Code Planes "higher" than the
BMP were referred to as "higher planes"... or "astral planes". Therefore,
these Code planes were obviously populated with "astral characters."
But I never did figure out if everything above Code Plane 16 was above or
still below the Heaviside Layer... ;-)}
Clive
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John H. Jenkins [SMTP:jenkins@apple.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 10:09 AM
> To: Unicode List
> Subject: Re: Plane One use, was Re: HTML Validation
>
>
> On Tuesday, December 18, 2001, at 08:00 AM, Rick Cameron wrote:
>
> > Pardon my ignorance, but what is an astral character? I can't find a
> > definition on the Unicode site, and Google mostly comes up with hits
> that
> > seem to have to do with Tarot! (Does this confirm the long-held
> suspicion
> > that Macs run on magic? ;^)
> >
>
> Ah, time it is to initiate you into the Great Mysteries.
>
> When the time came to give a general name for the characters in
> Unicode
> off the BMP, a number of suggestions were discussed. "Supplementary
> characters" won out; but there are those of us who still have a fond spot
> in our heart for the term "astral characters" and use it in preference to
> the official term.
>
> ==========
> John H. Jenkins
> jenkins@apple.com
> jenkins@mac.com
> http://homepage.mac.com/jenkins/
> >
> >
>
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