I noticed the following on the "Technical Work" page on the Unicode Web site, at http://www.unicode.org/techwork.html:
"The Unicode Standard was the basis for the Universal Character Set, two-octet form (UCS-2) of ISO/IEC 10646. The Unicode Standardâs 65,536 code values are the first 65,536 code values of ISO 10646." I wonder if this passage is very old, predating the full acceptance of the surrogate mechanism in the Unicode Standard. I suggest this text be revised to avoid perpetuating the common misconception that Unicode is a 16-bit-only standard, or that Unicode and ISO 10646 have different repertoires. -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
