Re: validity of lone surrogates (was Re: Unicode surroga tes: just say no!)

[Michael \(michka\) Kaplan]

From: "Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> It's a pity that UTF-16 doesn't encode characters up to U+FFFFF, such
> that code points corresponding to lone surrogates can be encoded as
> pairs of surrogates.

Unfortunately, we would then be stuck with what happens when two such
surrogate surrogates are next to each other.... and the binary compatibility
of 8-byte UTF-16 would rear its ugly head!

michka