Re: Vertical scripts (was: Tategaki (was: Re: Updated...))

From: DougEwell2@cs.com
Date: Sat Jan 05 2002 - 19:03:07 EST


I hasten to add:

> UTF-8 and UTF-32, at least, already have the architecture
> to represent 2^31 and 2^32 code points, respectively. The definitions
would
> simply have to changed to make the additional code points legal.
>
> Only UTF-16 would truly need to be redesigned, and that has already been
> proposed.

None of this is actually going to happen, of course. Unicode and 10646 are
committed to staying with 17 planes. I was just pointing out that certain
individuals had made informal proposals to extend the code space.

-Doug Ewell
 Fullerton, California



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