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[jc at trillian.mit.edu (John Chambers)]

Robert La Ferla wrote:
| I thought that any characters outside the basic multilingual plane
| (16-bit) were for historic scripts and scientific use.  Furthermore, I
| read that 21 bits is the maximum they will ever use.  31-bit was just
| the original spec and it has since changed now that they have real-world
| experience with it.

I have been tempted to install some Runic fonts and  transliterate  a
few  Scandinavian songs into that alphabet.  It'd be even more fun to
print out a few old Greek songs in a Linear B font.



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