On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 11:47 AM, Shriramana Sharma <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm sorry if this info is already in the Unicode website or book, but > I searched and couldn't find it in a hurry. > > When extending beyond the BMP and the maximum range of 16-bit > codepoints, why was it chosen to go upto 10FFFF and not any more or > less?
I think this is because upto 10FFFF is the maximum range supported by the preexisting UTF-16 encoding. P.
