Re: Mix encodings in a document?

Chris Olds (colds@nwlink.com)
Wed, 23 Sep 1998 15:56:13 -0700

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Tim Bray said:
>At 04:23 PM 9/23/98 -0400, John Cowan wrote:
>>Almost. Unicode = UTF-16; Unicode applications are not
>>allowed to support only the BMP, although there are no
>>characters on the Astral Planes yet.
>
>I've been told that the geniuses in charge have blessed a whole
>bunch of language tagging characters on plane 14. Anyone have
>a confirmation of this? -Tim

Yes, this is true. It is not (yet) part of the full standard, but it is
"provided as information and guidance to implementers". Details at
http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr7.html

Additionally, there is a document that shows what characters and scripts are
"in the pipeline", which includes several scripts (Linear B, Etruscan,
Gothic, Western Musical Notation, etc.) that have or are expected to be
allocated space in Plane 1. UCS-2 is history.

/cco

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