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From: Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>
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Subject: Re: Standard Library Interest?
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Robert I. Eachus <rieachus@comcast.net> wrote:
: Huh?  Read the RM:   <i>The predefined type Wide_Character is a 
: character type whose values correspond to the 65536 code positions of 
: the ISO 10646 Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP).
: 
: The BMP character set is identical to Unicode. 

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?)


Georg