Martin J. Dürst wrote: > Here's a little dirty secret about these tag characters: They were > placed in one of the astral planes explicitly to make sure they'd use > 4 bytes per tag character, and thus quite a few bytes for any actual > complete tags. <theory type="conspiracy" serious="false">
Aha. That explains why SCSU had to be banished to the hut, right around the same time the Plane 14 language tags were deprecated. In SCSU, astral characters can be 1 byte just like BMP characters. </theory> -- Doug Ewell | Thornton, CO, US | ewellic.org