From: Peter_Constable@sil.org
Date: Mon May 19 2003 - 11:52:58 EDT
Philippe Verdy wrote on 05/17/2003 01:29:19 PM:
> > Strictly speaking, Unicode codepoints do not have a size in terms of
bits.
> > There are simply positive integers.
>
> I don't think so, the agreement between Unicode and ISO/IEC 10646
> makes a clear statement that only 17 planes will be allocated, and
> definitely fixes the range of allowed values for codepoints
The limitation in range does not imply that the need be more than simply
non-negative integers. Please check the definitions in UTR17 and TUS4 ch 3.
Of course, the range of integers 0 - 0x10FFFF would require 21 bits to
represent directly in binary. But the definition of codepoints does not
refer in any way to binary representation.
- Peter
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