Re: UTF-16 clarification needed

From: Doug Ewell (dewell@roadrunner.com)
Date: Fri Jul 04 2008 - 13:02:05 CDT

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Philippe Verdy <verdy underscore p at wanadoo dot fr> wrote:

>> They are both UTF-16 code units and code points. They are not
>> Unicode scalar values.
>
> I don't think it is correct to say that U+20045 (both a character and
> a code point with scalar value hex 20045) will be created as U+D840
> U+DC45 with UTF-16; the latter indicates TWO separate TWO separate
> codepoints instead of one, assigned to TWO distinct NON-characters...

I took this straight out of the definitions in the TUS 5.0 book.

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