Re: UTF-7,5

From: Mark Leisher (mleisher@crl.nmsu.edu)
Date: Tue Jul 15 1997 - 10:39:58 EDT


    Martin> USENET is 8-bit clean, and this includes C1. Big-5 (traditional
    Martin> Chinese) runs nicely on Usenet and contains C1. For newsgroups
    Martin> that want to use Unicode, UTF-8 is certainly a better choice,
    Martin> because all the rest of the Internet is moving towards UTF-8 (see
    Martin> RFC 2130).

Big5 ranges are
 byte1: 0xa1-0xf9
 byte2: 0x40-0x7e and 0xa1-0xfe

A better C1 test would be using SJIS for Usenet posts.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
mleisher@crl.nmsu.edu
Mark Leisher "A designer knows he has achieved perfection
Computing Research Lab not when there is nothing left to add, but
New Mexico State University when there is nothing left to take away."
Box 30001, Dept. 3CRL -- Antoine de Saint-Exup éry
Las Cruces, NM 88003



This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.2 : Tue Jul 10 2001 - 17:20:35 EDT