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Re: [EAI] UTF32

Andrew Sullivan <ajs@anvilwalrusden.com> Wed, 22 April 2015 13:32 UTC

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Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2015 09:32:08 -0400
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Subject: Re: [EAI] UTF32
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On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 09:21:49AM -0400, John C Klensin wrote:
> Now you may be thinking about something else.  The Unicode code
> space ranges only from 0 to 0x10FFFF.   A 32bit code space would
> be 0 to 0xFFFFFFFF.

Importantly, if that's the problem one is trying to tackle, there
isn't anything the IETF can do about it.  It's fully a Unicode issue.

Best regards,

A

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