Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Don Cragun <don.cragun at sun.com> wrote:
>
>>> BTW: Regarding our talk... I checked the POSIX standard and it turns out
>>> that od(1) support for UTF-8 "chars" is fully optional. There is no need to
>>> support it.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> J?rg
>> Joerg,
>> This is only partly true.
>
> Please also comment Rolands claim that UNICODE is not a lossless coding.
> Roland mentioned this recently without giving evidence.
>
> I can hardly believe that the 21 bit coding used by UNICODE still has
> problems
> to map other codings. UNICODE has been designed to be a lossless coding....
Please take this discussion to an appropriate technical list (opensolaris-code?
shell-discuss? i18n-discuss?) and off ogb-discuss. We have enough to talk
about here without getting into the intracies of Unicode's Han Unification
problems.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
