Agree wholeheartedly with Timwi.
A small note, though... the proper name isn't "high characters" but
rather "plane 1" characters or "supplementary characters" or...
there's another more appropriate name for them, but I don't remember
it.
It also seems to me that developers in general tend to write off Plane
1 nowadays just as they may have once for Unicode in general.
Osmaniyyah is not _official_, but then again in Somalia "official"
doesn't mean much because they don't have a government. The country
exists only /de jure/, de facto it is a number of smaller countries,
territories under rival warlords, and vast areas of "no man's land".
The Somali government exists pretty much only in the context of
international organisations.
I made an Osmaniyyah font (MPH 2B Damase), and I got a few e-mails
about it from Somalia, and those people certainly sounded like it
would be useful in an everyday context.
Also, the BMP is nearly full now. Most _living_ writing systems added
to Unicode from here on out will be coded outside of the BMP. This
includes, possibly, such still-used scripts as Modi, Meithei Meeyek,
CIS2, Paiute, Lisu, Mundari scripts, West African scripts, Tulu...
Mark
On 15/10/05, Timwi <timwi(a)gmx.net> wrote:
There is however a compatibility issue:
MySQL's Unicode support is
limited to the 16-bit character range (basic multilingual plane), both
for ucs2 and utf8 storage modes.
I can't believe you are seriously suggesting to allow this to limit us
so badly that we would even have to close down an entire wiki (Gothic)
and may possibly not be able to re-open it again in years. The same
applies to high characters in article titles on Wikipedias such as
Chinese that are actually active and may actually *need* them! If they
are using them already, and they are working fine, and now you're taking
it away from them, I don't think they are going to like you. I hope for
strong opposition to such artificial limitations.
If MySQL's Unicode support is not up to the task, then DON'T USE IT.
Timwi
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