At 10:38 AM 12/18/01 -0800, Rick Cameron wrote:
>It looks like UCS-2 and UCS-4 are defined in ISO 10646. Does that standard
>restrict the valid range of UCS-4 to 0..10FFFF?
It will with AMD1 to ISO/IEC 10646-1:2000 which is expected to pass final
balloting and head for publication in 2002.
>If not, does this represent
>a significant divergence between Unicode and ISO 10646?
No. Just one more area where the committees are working together to make
sure that the formal statements of both standards are completely
synchronized, despite starting from a different framework and approach to
standardization and somewhat different terminology as well. Getting the
last few wrinkles may take another amendment or so, but the will is there
to see it through.
A./
Technical Vice President
The Unicode Consortium
Liaison to ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2
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