i18n

[robertlaferla at comcast.net (Robert La Ferla)]

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.

Let me add that UTF-8 can encode all 2^31 UCS codes.  Maybe that's why 
they didn't bother with UTF-32.

ps.  Please fix your clock.  Your e-mail is timestamped in the future.  
It's quite annoying if you sort messages by date.