nanogui: New Microwindows font support
Subject:
Re: New Microwindows font support
From:
Roberto Alsina ####@####.####
Date:
21 Mar 2000 19:05:28 -0000
Message-Id: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10003211552070.28990-100000@ultra208.unl.edu.ar>
On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Rob Leslie wrote:
> > : You are right, with the ugly Surrogate hack in UTF-16, up to
> > : 0x10FFFF characters can be supported, which should keep the
> > : ISO and ANSI guys busy for a while....
> >
> > I'm not aware of the this. Would you explain a bit?
>
> The Unicode standard defines character codes U+D800 through U+DFFF to be
> "surrogates," such that a pair made up from one high-half surrogate (U+D800 -
> U+DBFF) and one low-half surrogate (U+DC00 - U+DFFF) represents a single
> abstract character with a scalar value defined to be:
>
> 0x10000 + (H - 0xD800) * 0x400 + (L - 0xDC00)
Oh, my goodness. Does it have any practical current use, or can we just
forget about this thing and live blissfully ignorant of it? :-)
("\''/").__..-''"`-. . Roberto Alsina
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