Re: Language Setup Document

[Pete French]

> Unicode characters don't have any inherent width, and you can't strictly
> represent something as unicode in this sense. Unicode just gives each
> character a code point. You only get a width after encoding it, and this

I thought the standard stated that the Base Multilingual Plane was only
defined between 0 and 65535 (i.e. 16 bit) ? I certainly make that assumption
in a lot of places in my code...

uh oh...

-bat. [heading for unicode.org with a cold fear creeping over him...]