> > Adobe has already defined a small update to handle glyphs for
> > Unicode characters with code values larger than 0xFFFF; this is
> > not published yet on the web (but has been discussed on the
> > OpenType list).
>
> As far as I can see, the document you refer to does include that
> update (change, really, since there was a different(!)
> recommendation for that, based on UTF-16 code values, in the old
> version of that document).
Yes, my proposal has been written in August, and the update has
appeared on the website already.
> > Surrogates (i.e., Unicode values greater than 0xFFFF represented
> > with character codes from the surrogate area U+D800-U+DFFF) are
> > not allowed too.
>
> There are no character codes in the range U+D800-U+DFFF. Those code
> positions(!) are however sometimes referred to as "surrogates" or
> "surrogate code points" (not "surrogate characters", there are no
> such). Characters that are allocated above U+FFFF are sometimes
> called "supplementary characters", and they are on "supplementary
> planes".
My wording was a bit sloppy, but I think you know what I want.
Werner
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