RE: Encoding conversions

[Roozbeh Pournader]

On Sun, 9 Sep 2001, Carl W. Brown wrote:

> > 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.

They are now calling it UCES-8, the only remain will now be an Oracle
datatype named "UTF8" which is UCES-8 really.

UTC is also working on restricting UTF-8 to something equivalent to
RFC 2279's definition (well, for the range U+0000 to U+10FFFF) in Unicode
3.2. That's very good news I think.

roozbeh

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