From: vunzndi@vfemail.net
Date: Sun Jan 21 2007 - 19:25:26 CST
Are you saying utf16 doesn't support plane 16? This would make utf16
only part of unicode.
John Knightley (Linux , utf8 user)
Quoting Richard Wordingham <richard.wordingham@ntlworld.com>:
> Mike wrote on Sunday, January 21, 2007 6:56 PM
>
>> When I implemented collation, I needed to define code points for
>> the various contractions that can occur. To avoid clashing with
>> any private use code points, I chose to start allocating the con-
>> tractions at 0x110000. This has worked quite nicely.
>
> One problem with that solution is that it may work if you're working
> with extensions of UTF-8 or extensions of UTF-32, but just doesn't work
> with UTF-16. The other is that with the other two, especially
> extending UTF-8, you are quite likely to fall foul of defensive code
> guarding against impossible codepoints. It's a shame, for I had been
> about to suggest it.
>
>
> Richard.
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