From: wagnes@example.com   
      
   Lawrence D'Oliveiro  writes:   
      
   > On Sat, 23 Nov 2024 09:18:11 -0300, Wolfgang Agnes wrote:   
   >   
   >> How about UCS-2?   
   >   
   > “UCS-2” was the name of the encoding back when it was assumed that   
   Unicode   
   > was always going to be just 16 bits. After the coding was extended, those   
   > “surrogate” ranges were introduced, to allow representation of the extra   
   > characters within a 16-bit encoding, and so “UCS-2” was renamed to   
   > “UTF-16”.   
   >   
   > In short, “UTF-16” is basically “UCS-2 with surrogates”.   
      
   Nice to know!  Thanks.  So, UCS means ``Universal Character Set''.  I   
   thought it was a whole different character set.  It's a bit difficult to   
   understand ``surrogates''.  So many definitions come up such as ``Basic   
   Multilingual Plane''.  Can you explain what surrogates are?   
      
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