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Surrogate pairs were new to Unicode 2.0. Unicode 1.0 didn't anticipate the need for more than 65,536 code points (who would ever need more?); the main perceive
by jfultz 3y ago
Surrogate pairs were new to Unicode 2.0. Unicode 1.0 didn't anticipate the need for more than 65,536 code points (who would ever need more?); the main perceived threat to that limit having been resolved by Han unification.
- eviks 3y agoOk, but that doesn't answer the question; it's more of an indication that those design(at)s didn't uncover "the true extent" until years later