I know that Windows has supported supplemental planes since Windows XP.
I have fonts which I know have characters outside the basic multilingual plane (BMP).
For these characters, the Unicode codepoint consists of five hexadecimal digits.
I do not know how to enter these characters in applications.
Windows seems to only support keyboard entry of characters in the BMP. You can either enter a decimal number or some applications allow you to enter a four digit hexadecimal number.
Can someone confirm how entry is managed? I don't care if it directly from the keyboard or application-assisted. (The default Windows "Character Map" application only supports characters in the BMP, so I need suggestions -- preferably to an application supporting at least Unicode Version 5, if not 6.)
In Java, these characters are managed using "surrogate pairs" in UTF-16. I'm concerned that Windows may also have some of the old "Unicode is 16 bit" legacy, causing to have a similar issue. Even getting confirmation that I need to punch in surrogate pair numbers would be an answer.
Thanks!
Ok, i clearly do not know what are you talking about.
Anyway, refering to:
The default Windows "Character Map" application only supports characters in the BMP, so I need suggestions -- preferably to an application supporting at least Unicode Version 5, if not 6.
I've found a link to an application that could help.
https://www.babelstone.co.uk/Software/BabelPad.html
Download it, and select menu Tools -> then Character map.
Hope it could help.
If not sorry for the missunderstanding, just intending to help.