RE: Strings, Was: profile results for new UT_* implementations?

[Alistair Vining]

Mike Nordell wrote:
>
> What are the problems? Please don't say we need more than 2^16chars.

You need 10ffff chars, give or take a few invalid values such as 0xffff etc.

http://www.unicode.org/unicode/faq/utf_bom.html
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/utfencodingforms/

Characters above 0xffff have already been assigned and are required for things like
Hong Kong Chinese.

etc.  (Sorry if this wasn't the meaning of 'need' in your question)

Al.