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Re: Proposal for 2 Byte Unicode implementation in gcc and glibc

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Subject: Re: Proposal for 2 Byte Unicode implementation in gcc and glibc
From: Markus Kuhn <Markus.Kuhn@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 17:59:28 +0100
Cc: "Nuesser, Wilhelm" <wilhelm.nuesser@xxxxxxx>
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Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk wrote on 2000-08-08 16:24 UTC:
> Although characters currently proposed outside 16 bits are not
> common, [...]

I disagree. Mathematical typesetting for instance will make very
intensive use of Plane 1 characters, and it is essential to treat them
as first-class citizens. What you write in TeX today as $v$ will
tomorrow be MATH ITALIC LATIN LOWERCASE LETTER V in Plane 1.

See:

http://www.ams.org/STIX/
http://www.ams.org/STIX/glyphs/proposal/newsub/utc/99195-rev1.htm

Markus

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Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK
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