Re: More about SCSU (was: Re: A UTF-8 based News Service)

From: Rick McGowan (rick@unicode.org)
Date: Fri Jul 13 2001 - 13:16:13 EDT


> Unfortunately, you don't hear much about SCSU, and in particular the Unicode
> Consortium doesn't really seem to promote it much (although they may be
> trying to avoid the "too many UTF's" syndrome).

Probably that's one point. But also, SCSU is something that's a little more
complicated to use, and needs to be pretty well negotiated between sender
and receiver. It's much less suitable for general-purpose interchange.

        Rick



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