Re: Level of Unicode support required for various languages

<vunzndi at vfemail dot net> wrote:

>>> There are advatages to utf-8
>>
>> And many many more advantages to not breaking working code.
>
> And even more to making code hard to break, Y2K, et al.

The 17-plane limit was determined on the basis that the scope of 
10646/Unicode, to encode abstract text characters rather than specific 
instances of glyphs, would safely fit within such a limit.  To this 
date, this has not been proven false.

Code that uses UTF-16, SCSU, or other encoding forms that assume the 
17-plane limit are not broken, or break-prone, in the same sense as code 
written under the assumption it would be replaced or upgraded before the 
turn of the century.

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