Re: UTF8 vs. Unicode (UTF16) in code

From: John Jenkins (jenkins@apple.com)
Date: Mon Mar 12 2001 - 14:23:49 EST

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On Sunday, March 11, 2001, at 12:26 PM, Lars Marius Garshol wrote:

> How will the Japanese encode these JIS X 0213 characters? That is,
> what effect, if any, will this have on the legacy Japanese character
> encodings? Are there plans to extend ISO 2022-JP or EUC-JP, or for
> some entirely new Japanse character encodings?
>

There have been suggestions at making an EUC-JP-like encoding that
covers 0213, but my understanding is that most people aiming to provide
JIS X 0213 support will do so via Unicode. Certainly that's Apple's
expectation.

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