Re: Question about Perl5 extended UTF-8 design

On 11/06/2015 01:32 PM, Richard Wordingham wrote:
> On Thu, 05 Nov 2015 13:41:42 -0700
> "Doug Ewell" <doug_at_ewellic.org> wrote:
>
>> Richard Wordingham wrote:
>>
>>> No-one's claiming it is for a Unicode Transformation Format (UTF).
>>
>> Then they ought not to call it "UTF-8" or "extended" or "modified"
>> UTF-8, or anything of the sort, even if the bit-shifting algorithm is
>> based on UTF-8.
>
>> "UTF-8 encoding form" is defined as a mapping of Unicode scalar values
>> -- not arbitrary integers -- onto byte sequences. [D92]
>
> If it extends the mapping of Unicode scalar values *into* byte
> sequences, then it's an extension. A non-trivial extension of a
> mapping of scalar values has to have a larger domain.
>
> I'm assuming that 'UTF-8' and 'UTF' are not registered trademarks.
>
> Richard.
>

I have no idea how my original message ended up being marked to send to
this list. I'm sorry. It was meant to be a personal message for
someone who I believe was involved in the original design.
Received on Fri Nov 06 2015 - 22:51:46 CST