Bruce Lilly wrote: > Unicode code size increased overnight by more than 4 orders > of magnitude (a factor of 65536) when it went from 16 bits > 65536 code points) to 32 bits (over 4 billion code points) AFAIK it's only a factor 17 up to u+10FFFF, and the relevant standards like STD 63 eplicitly restrict themselves to this UTF-16 compatible range incl. many "private use" code points, surrogates, (yet) unassigned code points, non-characters, etc. > Unicode *everywhere* isn't likely to happen Your points are valid even without this "31 bits horror trip". Bye, Frank _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf