Wednesday, May 8, 2002
On page 322 of version 3.0 of the Unicode Standard in describing the
Private-Use High Surrogates: "This mechanism allows for a total of 131,068
(= 128 x 1024 - 4) private-use characters representable by means of
surrogate pairs." I understand that the 128 is the codes U+DB80 to U+DBFF
for the high-surrogates. It would be helpful if it were stated that the
low-surrogate codes are from the 1,024 at U+DC00 to U+DFFF and which four
codes are excluded. (For a while I had thought that the codes for the
low-surrogate could be any of the private use codes from U+E000 to U+DFFF
but 128 x 6399 = 817,082 so that couldn't be right.)
Regards from the mathematically challenged,
Jim Agenbroad ( jage@LOC.gov )
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