Re: UTF-8 curses

[hpa@transmeta.com (H. Peter Anvin)]

Followup to:  <E11fRD6-0003Uc-00@heaton.cl.cam.ac.uk>
By author:    Markus Kuhn <Markus.Kuhn@cl.cam.ac.uk>
In newsgroup: linux.utf8
> 
>  - The characters that will go above 0xffff will mostly be found on clay
>    tablets in the British Museum with amazingly low Carbon-14 concentrations.
>    Plane 1+ characters are more reserved codes for special applications
>    (most notably scholarly word processing) that are good to have
>    available in a good publishing system, but that are much less likely
>    to be urgently needed in simple VT100-style curses applications.
>    You won't have hieroglyphs in the X11 fixed font any time soon.
> 

Plane 2 is intended for CJK characters that are not in common use.
This will include personal names -- not something that people consider
insignificant.

	-hpa
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