There is no such thing as an "astral character" in Unicode or 10646.
But someone did suggest that as a name for non-BMP characters before
one settled on the term "supplementary character".

        /kent k


> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of Rick Cameron
> Sent: den 18 december 2001 16:01
> To: Unicode List
> Subject: RE: Plane One use, was Re: HTML Validation
> 
> 
> Pardon my ignorance, but what is an astral character? I can't find a
> definition on the Unicode site, and Google mostly comes up 
> with hits that
> seem to have to do with Tarot! (Does this confirm the 
> long-held suspicion
> that Macs run on magic? ;^)
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> - rick cameron
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John H. Jenkins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
> Sent: Monday, 17 December 2001 7:49
> To: Unicode List
> Subject: Re: Plane One use, was Re: HTML Validation
> 
> 
> 
> Any Cocoa- or ATSUI-based application on Mac OS X will also work with 
> astral characters, including the mail client and text-editing 
> program that 
> come with the OS.
> 
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