Re: UTF8 vs. Unicode (UTF16) in code

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At 19:30 -0800 2001-03-14, John Jenkins wrote:

>A bigger consideration than the ones I've mentioned was that having
>to rework Extension B to divide it into a BMP portion and a non-BMP
>portion would have delayed part 2 of 10646, and that was not
>acceptable. Moreover, the Japanese National Body itself did not
>request the change, so that there was a lack of strong sponsorship
>of the recoding and some serious practical ramifications counting
>against it.

Like the Irish National Body which saw a need to encode other living
minority scripts in the BMP.

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