"Maiorana, Jason" wrote on 2002-05-24 15:39 UTC: > its dissapointing that the viet-gov chose a 2-btye encoding > in their specification over UTF-8, somewhat precluding users > of the official encoding from using unicode outside the BMP > without ending up in the utf-16 quagmire.
I'd read the standard really just as the definition of a (very minimal) Unicode subset. For a choice of possible byte sequence encodings, I'd read Unicode and ISO 10646-1 directly. Markus -- Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK Email: mkuhn at acm.org, WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/> -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
