Re: HTML5 encodings (was: Re: BOCU patent)

From: Mark Crispin (mrc+unicode@panda.com)
Date: Sun Dec 27 2009 - 13:24:25 CST

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    On Sun, 27 Dec 2009, Doug Ewell wrote:
    > Because of the surrogate mechanism, there is no way I personally would
    > consider UTF-16 to be "simpler" than UTF-32. In the best case, it is "as
    > simple as" UTF-32. It has other advantages, mostly related to size, but
    > simplicity over UTF-32 is not one of them.

    [I couldn't resist!]

    UTF-18 is both simpler than UTF-16 and has size advantages over UTF-32.

    OK! OK! I'm sorry! ;)

    -- Mark --

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