From: Curt Sampson Date: 2002-08-04T17:49:46+09:00 Subject: Re: Deprecation and Unicode On Sun, 4 Aug 2002, Chris Gehlker wrote: > I think you have it. Unicode is formally a 31 bit character set.... Been here before, just the other day. Unicode is *not* a 31-bit character set. The entire range can be represented in 21 bits. > ...first 16 bits are called the "basic multilingual plane" (BMP) and were > supposed to be adequate for representing most natural languages. In fact it does appear to be adequate. At least, I can testify that it's fine for English, Japanese and Chinese. cjs -- Curt Sampson +81 90 7737 2974 http://www.netbsd.org Don't you know, in this new Dark Age, we're all light. --XTC