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- From: unrza3@cd4680fs.rrze.uni-erlangen.de (Markus Kuhn)
- Newsgroups: comp.std.internat
- Subject: Future extension of ISO 10646
- Date: 31 Dec 1992 23:51:16 +0100
- Organization: Regionales Rechenzentrum Erlangen
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- ISO 10646 defines a 32-bit character set, but at the moment, only
- a subset compatible with Unicode (the multilingual base plane) that
- fits in 16 bit has been defined.
-
- How will the rest of the ISO 10646 character space be used? Will
- there be a position for each character in each language (e.g. the
- character defined by the lower 16 bits and the language indicated
- by the higher 16 bits)? If mapping of full-10646 to the current
- 16-bit subset is still possible, that this would be a nice solution for
- many sorting, upcase-conversion and hyphenation problems. Then
- there would be
-
- - a universal A with diareses in the range 0-65535
- - a German version outside outside the 16-bit range
- - a Swedish version ...
- - ...
-
- Are this the plans for the full ISO 10646 standard?
-
- Markus
-
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