On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 1:27 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" <mar...@v.loewis.de>wrote:
> > > If the error handler is supposed to be used for codecs other than > > utf-8, > > > perhaps it should renamed something more generic, e.g. > > "surrogate-escape"? > > > > Perhaps. However, utf-8b doesn't really have to do anything with > utf-8 - > > it's an algorithm based on 16-bit or 32-bit code points. > > > > > > To me that lack of relationship with utf8 suggests that it should not be > > called utf8b > > Perhaps. However, giving it that name was Markus Kuhn's choice - and > while it may be confusing, it's (IMO) useful to be consistent with this > background. > > Regards, > Martin > > Ah, right. My original searches for utf8b didn't turn up much but searching on his name turns some up. Good choice of name then. http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/2000-07/msg00040.html http://bsittler.livejournal.com/10381.html http://hyperreal.org/~est/utf-8b/ -gps
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