On 02/12/2004 14:25:27 Tim Bunce wrote: >Isn't there a standard name for the 'unrestricted' encoding? >(Might be an IETF RFC rather than a unicode standard.)
Are you thinking of CESU-8 (see Unicode Technical Report #26 at http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr26/). This is similar to Perl's UTF-8 in that it handles supplementary plane characters as two surrogates. But it isn't otherwise 'unrestricted' and it isn't intended or recommended as an encoding used for open information exchange. Bob
