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Re: Linux console UTF-8 by default

On Saturday 2004.01.10 20:48:31 +0330, Roozbeh Pournader wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-01-10 at 20:36, Edward H. Trager wrote:
> > Is there any good reason why implementors would not support the
> > full range of Unicode -- i.e., UTF-8 up to six serialized bytes?
> 
> UTF-8 up to four bytes, you mean. See
> <http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3629.html>.
>

I guess I was recalling (from http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html) 
that six bytes allows encoding all possible 
2^31 UCS code points, although
I suppose nothing above plane 1 has been defined.  - Ed Trager

 
> roozbeh
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