Doug Ewell said: > The supplementary planes > have existed since 1993,
Not quite right. Technically, the approval and publication of Amendment 1 (UTF-16) to 10646:1993 took place in 1996. The formal proposal which turned into Amendment 1 was submitted by Mark Davis to WG2 in February, 1994. It is true that the *concept* of the supplementary planes (although not termed as such then) does date from 1993. > and the designation of private-use code points > in Planes 15 and 16 has existed since the release of Unicode 2.0 in > 1996. That's six years ago. Correct. That was timed to coincide with the publication of Amendment 1 to 10646, among other things. But it was Amendment 1 that actually designated Planes 15 and 16 as private-use. The Unicode 2.0 documentation merely echoes that specification -- it did not create it. --Ken
