Re: current idea

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>]

Followup to:  <20011104171053.A8578@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
By author:    David Starner <dstarner98@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
In newsgroup: linux.utf8
> 
> The higher planes implies you're talking about Unicode. But Unicode is
> committed to fitting within the 20.1 bit space currently defined.
> 

Unicode are *currently* committed to fitting within 20.1 bits -- but
they were equally committed to fitting within 16 bits :(

It's easy to chew up planes if you have to do something systematic...

	-hpa
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