Wed, 22 Aug 2001 15:59:15 -0700, Michael (michka) Kaplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pisze:

>> Functions ConvertUCS4toUTF8 and ConvertUTF8toUCS4 use surrogates
>> in UCS4. In particular ConvertUTF8toUCS4 converts a character above
>> U+FFFF into two UCS4 words. Why is this absurd there?!
> 
> UCS-4 has no knowledge of surrogate code points or their significance; it is
> ap urely algorithmic conversion. Not sure why the results would be so
> surprising, given this?

I don't understand. I'm talking about characters above U+FFFF, not
about characters from the range U+D800..DFFF. They are represented
as themselves in UCS-4. But the said routine represents them as pairs
of surrogates.

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