On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 05:27:45PM -0400, Maiorana, Jason wrote:
> I guess I wont be able to say that UTF-32 is a subset of UCS-4
> anymore. It seems to me that they are explicit in their motives:
> that they are accepting the restriction so that UTF-16 wont
> become a paraiah encoding.

So all Unicode encodings can be round-tripped. Surely a reasonable goal.

> Regardless of this agreement, I hope that a proliferation of
> UTF-8 encoders/decoders that only support 4-byte utf-8 doesnt
> occur. 

I take it when you store decimal data, you store each digit in two
bytes just in case? You know, some day we may want to store a number
larger than 256 in that digit.

-- 
David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What we've got is a blue-light special on truth. It's the hottest thing 
with the youth. -- Information Society, "Peace and Love, Inc."
--
Linux-UTF8:   i18n of Linux on all levels
Archive:      http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/

Reply via email to