Michael Everson scripsit:

> 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.

The scale in question is analogous to a temperature scale, not a
reptilian one.

> 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....

The Right Thing in HTML terms is to say #&x10312; and *not* use the
surrogate pair representation.

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