Re: Linux console UTF-8 by default

[Jungshik Shin <jshin@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Edward H. Trager wrote:

> 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
>  
Plane 2 has tens of thousands of  Chinese characters and Plane 14 has 
variation selectors and language tags. However, nothing will ever be 
defined above Plane 16. JTC1/SC2/WG2 made a firm commitment to that.

Jungshik



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