From: lynnmcguire5@gmail.com   
      
   On 11/25/2024 5:35 AM, Wolfgang Agnes wrote:   
   > 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?   
      
   There is lots of information at   
       https://home.unicode.org/   
      
   And   
       https://stackoverflow.com/   
      
   Lynn   
      
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