From: Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk (qrczak@knm.org.pl)
Date: Sat Apr 23 2005 - 13:24:28 CST
Hans Aberg <haberg@math.su.se> writes:
> The limit of number of Unicode code points is due to design flaw
> in the UTF-16 encoding, where the engineers who did it failed to
> properly separate the notions of character numbers and integer-to-binary
> encoding. If one makes that separation, it is easy to extend the
> ranges to even to infinity, if one so likes.
My orthography for Polish can consume an infinite number of characters
if I treat it like Hangul was treated and encode precomposed characters
individually. Ok, I'm taking all odd numbers, so even ones are left
for other scripts :-)
Sample: http://qrnik.knm.org.pl/~qrczak/tmp/schody-001.gif
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