Re: Support for non-BMP characters

From: Doug Ewell <doug_at_ewellic.org>
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 06:57:30 -0600

Szelp, A. Sz. wrote:

> Shouldn't it be technically possible to store Supplementary Plane
> characters in UTF-16 / UCS-2 as well? Isn't that what Surrogate Pairs
> are for?

The main difference between UTF-16 and UCS-2 is that the former supports
surrogate pairs, while the latter doesn't.

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