From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:42:45 -0500
To: 9fans@9fans.net
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Lex, Yacc, Unicode Plane 1
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On Thu Jan 28 16:22:58 EST 2010, geoff@plan9.bell-labs.com wrote:
> Yes, we only support the 16-bit runes of Unicode plane 0.  That really
> should be enough space, except for bungling by the Unicode Consortium.

good point.

at this point only ~21829 codepoints are assigned, depending
on your definition of assigned.  and i agree that the unicode
consortium has taken a number decisions that make life difficult
(unnecessary combiners and font-encodings for math characters
are my pet peeves) .

but now that the decision has been made, i think it makes sense
to adapt, or at least put ourselves in the position to adapt.
such a principled stance doesn't help someone who needs
codepoints outside the basic plane.

otherwise we become the 64000 characters ought to
be enough for everyone guys.

- erik