Markus Kuhn wrote: > Now, who invented UTF-16?
I am basing this on my memory because I don't have the time to search the documents. I know that Joe Becker and Rick McGowan wrote the original paper about developing a new UTF to extend UCS-2 to be able to cover about 10000000 (1 million) characters. They did not call it UTF-16. However, the proposed UTF set the direction but was changed before being adopted by ISO in ISO/IEC 10646-1:1993 as amendment 1. When Joe and Rick documented the scripts that 10646 and Unicode would need to code, they estimated the requirement at about 250000 characters. To allow for errors in the estimate, they multiplied by 4 to make it 1 million characters. This was somewhat larger than a 16-bit code space of UCS-2. The original proposal was refined and resulted in the current UTF-16. I am unsure if Mark Davis suggested the current form of UTF-16. Edwin F. Hart Applied Physics Laboratory 11100 Johns Hopkins Road Laurel, MD 20723-6099 USA +1-443-778-6926 (Baltimore Area) +1-240-228-6926 (Washington DC Area) +1-443-778-1093 (facsimile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
