From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,88ed72d98e6b3457 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-10-05 10:43:35 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.vmunix.org!newspeer1-gui.server.ntli.net!ntli.net!newsfep4-glfd.server.ntli.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: chris User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20030925 Thunderbird/0.3 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Standard Library Interest? References: <3F7F760E.2020901@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2003 18:48:59 +0100 NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.98.236.164 X-Complaints-To: abuse@ntlworld.com X-Trace: newsfep4-glfd.server.ntli.net 1065375815 81.98.236.164 (Sun, 05 Oct 2003 18:43:35 BST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2003 18:43:35 BST Organization: ntl Cablemodem News Service Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:272 Date: 2003-10-05T18:48:59+01:00 List-Id: Georg Bauhaus wrote: > How can this be when Unicode has more than 65536 code positions? > (Assuming I wanted to use full Unicode, I guess I will have to rely > on Implementation Permissions to provide me with a corresponding > character type?) I was going to ask that, but assumed BMP uses the same extension mechanism as unicode to achieve more than 65536 code points.