John Cowan asked: > 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.
Anything is possible, given geologic timescales. I know some people who would love to go into 10646 and rip out the anachronistic figures showing the architecture for Groups 01 to 7F and the supplementary planes past Plane 10. Heck, *I* would love to do it. But realistically, it isn't worth the hassle to attempt it. It will probably require the current generation of standardizers to all retire, first. The next generation of maintainers will someday look at the document and say to themselves, "Why are we keeping this silliness in the standard?" and rip it all out -- long past the point that anyone really cares about the issue. But that will be precisely why they will be able to accomplish such a revision. --Ken
