Kenneth Whistler scripsit:

> It was only with Unicode 3.0 (and the correlated 10646-1:2000)
> that this was rationalized to the Unicode definition of
> UTF-8 formally consisting of only 1-4 bytes sequences, while
> simultaneously the potential need for 5 and 6-byte sequences
> in 10646 was removed, because of the removal of any private
> use planes past U+10FFFF in 10646.

Tell us, O Keen-Eyed Peerer Into The Future:  is there any hope that
the code space above 10FFFF will ever be removed from 10646, so that
the "Unicode's a subset of 10646" meme can be stomped once and for
all?  I grow weary of explaining this pointless difference.

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"While staying with the Asonu, I met a man from     John Cowan
the Candensian plane, which is very much like       [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ours, only more of it consists of Toronto."         http://:www.ccil.org/~cowan
        --the unnamed narrator of Le Guin's Changing Planes

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