On Thu, 19 Dec 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > ...There are unfortunately two (or three, depending on how you
> > want to count) varieties of UTF-8...
>
> ...If you mean variations like Java-UTF-8 (with an extra sequence for NUL 
> to avoid the 0 byte), that's probably not worth mentioning, also it's 
> not ASCII-compatible...

It might be worth mention, because Java's not the only thing using it.
It's actually quite convenient to be able to make applications 
NUL-transparent without having to recode all the string operations.

                                                          Henry Spencer
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