From: Matthias Clasen <mclasen@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 13:22:36 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Add a footnote about surrogate pairs. (#317683, Behdad Esfahbod)
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Add a footnote about surrogate pairs. (#317683, Behdad Esfahbod)

2005-10-26  Matthias Clasen  <mclasen@redhat.com>

	* glib/tmpl/unicode.sgml: Add a footnote about surrogate
	pairs.  (#317683, Behdad Esfahbod)
---

diff --git a/docs/reference/ChangeLog b/docs/reference/ChangeLog
index a0573853..7b911784 100644
--- a/docs/reference/ChangeLog
+++ b/docs/reference/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2005-10-26  Matthias Clasen  <mclasen@redhat.com>
+
+	* glib/tmpl/unicode.sgml: Add a footnote about surrogate 
+	pairs.  (#317683, Behdad Esfahbod)
+
 2005-10-05  Matthias Clasen  <mclasen@redhat.com>
 
 	* glib/compiling.sgml: Document gmodule-no-export-2.0
diff --git a/docs/reference/glib/tmpl/unicode.sgml b/docs/reference/glib/tmpl/unicode.sgml
index 0ce4aed9..466299dc 100644
--- a/docs/reference/glib/tmpl/unicode.sgml
+++ b/docs/reference/glib/tmpl/unicode.sgml
@@ -40,7 +40,12 @@ A type which can hold any UCS-4 character code.
 
 <!-- ##### TYPEDEF gunichar2 ##### -->
 <para>
-A type which can hold any UTF-16 character code. 
+A type which can hold any UTF-16 code 
+point<footnote id="utf16_surrogate_pairs">UTF-16 also has so called 
+<firstterm>surrogate pairs</firstterm> to encode characters beyond the 
+BMP as pairs of 16bit numbers. Surrogate pairs cannot be stored in a 
+single gunichar2 field, but all GLib functions accepting gunichar2 arrays 
+will correctly interpret surrogate pairs.</footnote>.
 </para>