Frank Yung-Fong Tang <YTang0648 at aol dot com> wrote: > The other reason, is untill recently in Unicode 3.1 and 3.2. There are > no characters defined beyond BMP.
Unicode 3.1 came out 2Â years ago, in May 2001. That's no longer an excuse. > Even as today, while there many > characters defined beyond the BMP in unicode 4.0, the software vendor > may not care about those market which need those characters any way. > In that case, the priority to support those are pretty low. > ... > If you think Surrogate support is very important. Then IUC25 is a good > chance for you to talk to "goverment" people. Maybe you should suggest > them to put surrogate support into a law as what China did in 2000. > (not really, they only require GB18030 support, but that "imply" > Surrogate.) I don't know about the relative market needs. I think supplementary character support is important because these characters are part of Unicode just as much as BMP characters are, and implementing UTF-8 support for the entire Unicode code space is about 0.1% harder than artificially crippling it by restricting it to the BMP. -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
