Clive said:
> But I never did figure out if everything above Code Plane 16 was above or
> still below the Heaviside Layer... ;-)}
As for the cats, in "Up up up past the Russell Hotel, up up up to the Heaviside layer"?
Actually, my surmise, given the fact that the code points past U+10FFFF are
forever inaccessible, is that they lie beyond the event horizon. Not merely
the event horizon of local black holes, as for Planes 2 and 3, which will
be endless sinks for CJK encoding energy, pulling hapless encoders in and
shredding them with infinite tides as they approach the danger zone.
No-- rather, the event horizon of the entire character universe, beyond which we can
detect nothing.
Perhaps, however, from the murmer of chilled microwaves emanating from the
vicinity of the noncharacters U+10FFFE and U+10FFFF, at the far nether
reaches of the astral planes, we can find patterns that will allow us to
interpret the earliest history of the character universe.
--Ken
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