20.8.2011 0:07, Doug Ewell wrote:
Of course, 2.1 billion characters is also overkill, but the advent of UTF-16 was how we ended up with 17 planes.
And now we think that a little over a million is enough for everyone, just as they thought in the late 1980s that 16 bits is enough for everyone.
-- Yucca, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/