onable writing system on the planet and some make-believe ones like Klingon, too. Some people are under the misconception that Unicode is simply a 16-bit code where each character takes 16 bits and therefore there are 65,536 possible characters. <strong>This is not, actually, correct.</strong> It is the single most common myth about Unicode, so if you thought that, don't feel bad.</p>

<p>In fact, Unicode has a different way of thinking about characters, and you have to understand the Unicode way of think