From: Hans Aberg (haberg@math.su.se)
Date: Wed Jan 19 2005 - 18:48:54 CST
On 2005/01/20 00:31, Christopher Fynn at cfynn@gmx.net wrote:
> Hans Aberg wrote:
>> My guess is that all that fits into a computer will be binary numbers and
>> transformations thereof. If you know of a counter example, please let me
>> know. But the point of computers seems also to be that humans can associate
>> these binary numbers with various human understandable structures. I believe
>> the point of Unicode is that one associates characters with the Unicode
>> numbers. So a CPBTF-8 would be transformation where the code points are not
>> thought to be associated with the Unicode characters, whereas I believe the
>> point with Unicode is that one does associate Unicode numbers with
>> characters.
> If that's so, discussion of this CPBTF-8 is out of scope on this list.
The proper procedure woould probably be that some other organization
develops such a format, say an updatde RFC, and Unicode choses UTF-8 as a
specialization of that format.
Hans Aberg
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