The region beyond U+10FFFF contains photos of the editors
of The Unicode Standard, Version 3.0.
Misha
On 18/12/2001 18:09:11 Kenneth Whistler wrote:
> Clive said:
>
> > But I never did figure out if everything above Code Plane 16 was above or
> > still below the Heaviside Layer... ;-)}
>
> As for the cats, in "Up up up past the Russell Hotel, up up up to the Heaviside
> layer"?
>
> Actually, my surmise, given the fact that the code points past U+10FFFF are
> forever inaccessible, is that they lie beyond the event horizon. Not merely
> the event horizon of local black holes, as for Planes 2 and 3, which will
> be endless sinks for CJK encoding energy, pulling hapless encoders in and
> shredding them with infinite tides as they approach the danger zone.
>
> No-- rather, the event horizon of the entire character universe, beyond which
> we can
> detect nothing.
>
> Perhaps, however, from the murmer of chilled microwaves emanating from the
> vicinity of the noncharacters U+10FFFE and U+10FFFF, at the far nether
> reaches of the astral planes, we can find patterns that will allow us to
> interpret the earliest history of the character universe.
>
> --Ken
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