On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 11:47 AM, Shriramana Sharma <samjnaa_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm sorry if this info is already in the Unicode website or book, but
> I searched and couldn't find it in a hurry.
>
> When extending beyond the BMP and the maximum range of 16-bit
> codepoints, why was it chosen to go upto 10FFFF and not any more or
> less?
I think this is because upto 10FFFF is the maximum range supported by
the preexisting UTF-16 encoding.
P.
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