Re: ISO vs Unicode UTF-8 (was RE: UTF-8 signature in web and email)

From: B (11@onna.com)
Date: Mon May 28 2001 - 03:17:52 EDT


★じゅう瘢雹いっちゃん★

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>>
>> >There was another abomination proposed. Oracle rather than adding UTF-16
>> >support proposed that non plane 0 characters be encoded to an from UTF-8
>> by
>> >encoding each of the surrogate pairs into a separate UTF-8 character.
>>
>> Yes, Oracle, PeopleSoft and SAP submitted a proposal to UTC to sanction
>> another encoding form, UTF-8S, that would encode supplementary plane
>> characters as six bytes, three corresponding to each of a UTF-16 high and
>> low surrogate. The rational had to do with having an 8-bit encoding form
>> that would "binary" sort in the same way as UTF-16.

(insert about forty HIRAGANA LETTER RA's here)

*Six* bytes? As in UNIFIED CJK IDEOGRAPH-516D bytes???!!!!

I just hope they don't need them too often....

(thirty more HIRAGANA LETTER RA's here)

Oh well...



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