[malaka.3]

I'm working on a project where I'm producing a Unicode library and I've been doing some research. I recently became aware of what is called Unicode's "astral" or "supplementary" characters...

These, simply, are higher-order symbols in the Unicode characterset which are now starting to be defined, and are expressed as 32-bit values.

My question is, in particular, is OS X capable of handling 32 bit Unicode characters at this time?


Regards,
John

[sadie]

No idea, but i'll bump the topic coz i'd like to know.

What sort of characters are these, anyway? Is it part of the generally accepted unicode standard, or a recent change?