Re: Speaking of Plane 1 characters...

[Michael Everson]

At 13:11 -0800 2002-11-11, Michael \(michka\) Kaplan wrote:

 > Perhaps it is just me, but terms like scalar value just don't mean
 > anything to me. It rather reminds me of reptilian skin shedding.

Since I do not use that term on my site, I assume you are referring to
someone else's resource? :-)

It was related to this thread but in a previous post. Nevertheless a little gentle user-friendliness on your page would help me to use it more easily. Just a teensy tutorialette and a weensy example at the top? A little hand-holding?

 > I visited MichKa's page and tried typing in 10312 (OLD ITALIC LETTER

 KU) and it did convert to a surrogate pair. I wonder what would
 happen if I pasted it into an HTML document. Hmm but I couldn't do
 that until I converted them to UTF-8....

Well, since the page advertises itself as a UTF-16/UTF-32 sort of converter,
I would hope that the lack of UTF-8 byte conversion would be expected.....

Gee, what I really need is a UTF-8/UTF-16/UTF/32 sort of converter that handles surrogates.... ;-) "There isn't such a thing and there ought to be." :-)

 > By the way MichKa if you make the boxes a bit wider the whole string

 of numbers would display.

What numbers did not display for you? They all fit for me....

The surrogate pair shows three digits and a tiny little popup triangle to tell you that there's a fourth digit. If you need to I can send you a screenshot.
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