Re: Surrogate space in Unicode

[Tom Lord]

        Because of the widespread belief that Unicode stops at U+FFFF,
        many fonts and applications that claim to support Unicode can
        only handle basic characters, not supplementary characters.

Right.  (Is it really a widespread belief?  That's something I've
been wondering.)

So using the plain english term "basic" to describe that subset
of Unicode is misleading.

I agree with you that the language in the standard needs updating.

-t