Re: String name and Character Name

From: Hans Aberg (haberg@math.su.se)
Date: Sat Apr 23 2005 - 15:30:03 CST

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    At 21:24 +0200 2005/04/23, Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk wrote:
    > > 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 :-)

    More sophisticated computer software would not encode all the
    characters individually. :-)

    -- 
       Hans Aberg
    


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