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

[Michael \(michka\) Kaplan]

From: "Misha Wolf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> Let's be careful with the word "legal".  The strange (per-)version of
> UTF-8 which re-encodes UTF-16 is legal input as far as The Unicode
> Standard is concerned.  It is, however, totally illegal as far as the
> IETF, the Internet, the W3C, the WWW, XML, and HTML are concerned.

Well Misha, give what you have just said, why exactly is the UTF-8S proposal
being forwarded to the Unicode Technical Committee? It seems that the UTC is
already doing what is needed here to allow people to live with these
(flawed) implementations. If Oracle or anyone else needs such a thing to be
supported elsewhere then they will have to talk to the IETF, the Internet,
the W3C, the WWW, XML, and HTML to see if a similar rule (allow it to be
accepted, never emit) can be passed?

Or is this one of those cases of the child choosing to ask their father
because they know that their mother will say no when they ask?

MichKa

Michael Kaplan
Trigeminal Software, Inc.
http://www.trigeminal.com/