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

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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.

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

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

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Oh well...