Re: Re: Code pages and Unicode

From: Jean-François Colson <jf_at_colson.eu>
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 14:56:17 +0200

On 23 août 2011 21:44 "Richard Wordingham"
<richard.wordingham_at_ntlworld.com> <richard.wordingham_at_ntlworld.com>
wrote:

> On Tue, 23 Aug 2011 07:18:21 +0200
> Jean-François Colson <jf_at_colson.eu> <jf_at_colson.eu> wrote:
>
> > And what dou you think about (H1,H2,VS1,L3,L4)?
>
> The L4 is unnecessary. The trick then is to think of a BMP
> character that would very rarely be searched for on its own.
>
> Richard.
>

With (H1,H2,VS1,L3), you'd only reach U+4010FFFF.
To reach U+7FFFFFFF, you'd need either an additional low surrogate
(H1,H2,VS1,L3,L4)
or two VS (H1,H2,VS1,L3) and (H1,H2,VS2,L3).
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