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From: Martin Krischik <krischik@users.sourceforge.net>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: RE: Supporting full Unicode
Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 16:34:34 +0200
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amado.alves wrote:

>>> An ugly fact about Unicode is that the code space is 24-bit...
> 
>> Not quite right. The current code space is 32 bit of which only 24 bits
>> are used...
> 
> You made me go for the book to see if this had changed. It has not. The
> codespace is 24 bit. Actually it's 21.
> 
> "In the Unicode Standard, the codespace consists of the integers from 0 to
> 10FFFF..."
> 
> (The Unicode Standard, Version 4.0.1, section 2.4)

If you mean the currently used code space then yes. But they extend the
codepace from time to time

With Regards

Martin

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