Re: UTF-16 clarification needed

From: Doug Ewell (dewell@roadrunner.com)
Date: Fri Jul 04 2008 - 01:46:59 CDT

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イェルーンラウフロックヴァンデルウェルヴェン <asmodai at in dash nomine dot org> wrote:

> When you have the U+D800 - U+DFFF range for creating code points using
> surrogate pairs and you take for example U+20045 it will be created
> as: U+D840 U+DC45. Are these, by themselves only code units or are
> they also code points?

They are both UTF-16 code units and code points. They are not Unicode
scalar values.

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