Future extension of ISO 10646

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From: Markus Kuhn
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 22:51

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ISO 10646 defines a 32-bit character set, but at the moment, only
a subset compatible with Unicode (the multilingual base plane) that
fits in 16 bit has been defined.

How will the rest of the ISO 10646 character space be used? Will
there be a position for each character in each language (e.g. the
character defined by the lower 16 bits and the language indicated
by the higher 16 bits)? If mapping of full-10646 to the current
16-bit subset is still possible, that this would be a nice solution for
many sorting, upcase-conversion and hyphenation problems. Then
there would be

  - a universal A with diareses in the range 0-65535
  - a German version outside outside the 16-bit range
  - a Swedish version ...
  - ...

Are this the plans for the full ISO 10646 standard?

Markus

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