RE: Encoding conversions

[Carl W. Brown]

Bruno,

>
> > But UTF-8 is not without its own problems.  Take Oracle for example.
>
> Most of the world is not Oracle. If Oracle uses its own encodings, let
> Oracle deal with it.

I was pointing out Oracle as an example.  Largely because of the way that
they deal with Unicode.  But there are many others.

>
> > They designed UTF-8 to encode UCS-2 not UTF-16.
>
> No, Oracle did not design UTF-8 at all. The RFC 2279 specifies UTF-8,
> and it encodes all characters from U+00000000 to U+7FFFFFFF.
>

What I meant was the Oracle implementation of UTF-8.

Carl


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