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Unicode (was RE: JIT-compilation for OCaml?)

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Date:	2001-01-24 (17:13)
From:	John Max Skaller <skaller@o...>
Subject:	Re: Unicode (was RE: JIT-compilation for OCaml?)

Pierpaolo BERNARDI wrote:

> Sorry, no. The idea that "Unicode is 16 bit" is a relic of the
> prehistory of Unicode, when it was thought that 64K characters would
> suffice.

	When people talk about Unicode in industry they mean
16 bit code points.

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