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Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 23:02:16 +0800
From: "Hongzheng Wang" <wanghz@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] About The Codes Beyond Unicode-BMP
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I see.  Thanks.

On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 10:55 PM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com> wrot=
e:
> plan 9 supports utf16.  that is codpoints u+0000 =97 u+fffff.  there is n=
o
>  support for 32bit characters.  to support larger characters, the startin=
g point
>  would be changing Rune from ushort to ulong and changing constants like
>  UTFmax and fixing chartorune and runetochar.  (and finding all the place=
s
>  that assume that UTFmax really is 3.)
>
>  it's all very doable, but it would be a very invasive change.
>
>  - erik
>
>



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