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- From: John Cowan <cowan@locke.ccil.org>
- To: XML Dev <xml-dev@ic.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 16:23:09 -0400
Michael Kay wrote:
> No. UTF-16 is an encoding of ISO 10646 that uses 16 bits to
> represent the characters in the Basic MultiLingual Plane
> (BMP, equivalent to Unicode) and longer sequences to
> represent characters outside the BMP. It is thus a pure
> superset of UCS-2 or Unicode. See
> http://osiris.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/N1334.html
Almost. Unicode = UTF-16; Unicode applications are not
allowed to support only the BMP, although there are no
characters on the Astral Planes yet.
--
John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org
You tollerday donsk? N. You tolkatiff scowegian? Nn.
You spigotty anglease? Nnn. You phonio saxo? Nnnn.
Clear all so! 'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)
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