Re: draft-ietf-httpbis-header-structure-00, unicode range

On 2016-12-13 23:06, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
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> In message <20161213214223.GA8638@LK-Perkele-V2.elisa-laajakaista.fi>, Ilari Li
> usvaara writes:
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>> IIRC, Unicode has exactly 1,111,998 codepoints in total (most of those
>> are unallocated).
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> Future archaeologists will stare at that number and conclude that
> "It must have had religious significance for them" :-)
>
>> And I suppose that the surrogates MUST be paired properly (JSON actually
>> does not require this).
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> Yes.  I'm firmly in the "Jon Postel was wrong" camp of protocol design
> these days.

Actually, we shouldn't use surrogate pairs *at all*.

Best regards, Julian

Received on Wednesday, 14 December 2016 06:44:51 UTC