Re: UTF-8S (was: Re: ISO vs Unicode UTF-8)

[Peter_Constable]

On 06/04/2001 02:10:35 AM Doug Ewell wrote:

>While we are at it, here's another argument against the existence of both
>UTF-8 and this new UTF-8s.  Recently there was a discussion about the use
of
>the U+FEFF signature in UTF-8 files, with a fair number of Unicode experts
>arguing against its necessity because UTF-8 is so easy to detect
>heuristically.  Without reopening that debate, it is worth noting that
UTF-8s
>could not be distinguished from UTF-8 by that technique...

I hope some UTC members are listening to these arguments, particularly some
that weren't already strongly opposed to the UTF-8s proposal.



- Peter


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