On Mon, 2 Feb 2004, Glenn Maynard wrote:
> > (To avoid confusion, we don't call our encoding UTF-8. We tend to
> > say UTF-8 when we mean UTF-8, and "utf8" when we mean the more general
> > not-necessarily-Unicode encoding.
>
> This is an insane way to make a distinction, just as silly as trying to
> differentiate between "kilobits" and "kilobytes" with "kb" and "kB".
> Changing hyphens and case doesn't make distinctions or avoid confusion.
Yes, it would be better to call the more general encoding, say, UTF-P.
Henry Spencer
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