On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 03:58:45PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If the unicode standard is extended beyond 0x10FFFF, it can become a > problem, especially in protocols.
And if our bytes only have 6 bits, it can become a problem. Since there are machines with less than 8 bits per byte, I think we should deal with that problem first. There's no reason to believe that Unicode will need more space then it has. It's almost filled the BMP, and they may not be able stop the SIP from overflowing onto another plane. The SMP, on the other hand, is just starting to get filled, has lots of empty space on its roadmap, and has lots of spaces on its roadmap that may or may not get filled in this decade. The SSP (where the language tags are) has about 400 characters, and there are no existing, realistic, plans on what to do with the rest of it. So out of 15 planes, everything we can imagine needing fits on four, with a potential overflow onto a fifth for the SIP. I don't think there's any need to worry. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] What we've got is a blue-light special on truth. It's the hottest thing with the youth. -- Information Society, "Peace and Love, Inc." -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
