Re: Level of Unicode support required for various languages

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Quoting Doug Ewell <[email protected]>:

> John H. Jenkins <jenkins at apple dot com> wrote:
>
>>>> If the allocation of CJKV codepoints continues to be donr in this  
>>>>  way, then for modern CJKV coverage will require not only BMP and  
>>>>  plane 1 support but also, in the future, plane 3 suport.
>>>
>>> (Should be plane 2, BTW.)
>>
>> No, he meant plane 3.  If the current explosion of extremely rare   
>> Han characters continues, we'll have to start putting them in plane  
>>  3 before long.
>
> I am certain that what was meant was, "If the allocation of CJKV code
> points continues to be done in this way, then modern CJKV coverage will
> require not only BMP and plane 2 support but also, in the future, plane
> 3 support."
>

Yes precisely, and some of the plane 3 characters will be characters  
in current usage.

John

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