Re: Names of planes, and request for sneak preview

[Doug Ewell]

John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>> Everybody and his cat should know that BMP stands for Basic Multilingual
>> Plane, and the Roadmap pages also show that SMP is short for Secondary
>> Multilingual Plane.  What are SIP and GPP?
>
> Supplementary Ideographic Plane, General Purpose Plane.  Note that these
> are 10646 names, not Unicode names.

Interesting... I hadn't looked at it that way.  I know that the entire
group/plane/row/cell breakdown is a 10646 thing.  Is there a Unicode-
specific term for the range from U+0000 to U+FFFD, the code points that
can be represented without surrogates?

-Doug Ewell
 Fullerton, California