Markus Kuhn scripsit: > Now, who invented UTF-16?
The authors of X3L2/93-106, whomever they may have been: at a guess, Rick McGowan and Joe Becker. The oldest document referring to UTF-16 (as "Proposal for Extended UCS-2, being also a Proposal for Extended Unicode") appears to be http://www.unicode.org/Public/TEXT/ALLOC.TXT , dated 1993-04-11. The alternative proposal was to extend the old O-Zone (what is now the surrogates area) to 94 rows so that random national standards could be swapped in to the 94x94 space, a kind of giant ISO 2022 for 16 bits. -- John Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.reutershealth.com www.ccil.org/~cowan Big as a house, much bigger than a house, it looked to [Sam], a grey-clad moving hill. Fear and wonder, maybe, enlarged him in the hobbit's eyes, but the Mumak of Harad was indeed a beast of vast bulk, and the like of him does not walk now in Middle-earth; his kin that live still in latter days are but memories of his girth and his majesty. --"Of Herbs and Stewed Rabbit" -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
