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<CAArMM9QFOvd3cHw0gF+C=fscx2yovr_iz2kyk_bs1wcguvf...@mail.gmail.com>,
on 12/10/2015
at 05:17 PM, Tony Harminc <[email protected]> said:
>Shmuel, you know as well as I do that UTF-32 is not a privileged
>representation of Unicode.
And you know as well as I do that a representation of foo is not, in
general, foo.
>"The Unicode Standard and ISO/IEC 10646 support three encoding
>forms
An encoding form is not the thing encoded.
>UTF-8 *is* Unicode, as are UTF-16 and UTF-32.
No, they are transforms for Unicode.
>Mrs Lincoln doesn't come into it.
Whoosh! The point is that the detail in question is crucial.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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