Kenneth Whistler <kenw at sybase dot com> wrote: >> I have seen several other informal proposals for "UTF-*" forms/ >> schemes. All this is just confusive, and their authors should imagine >> their own names for reference. What do you think of this idea? > > It is, indeed, "confusive". Some of us have deliberately contributed > to the confusion with tongue-in-cheek additions. See my own > UTF-17 (draft-whistler-utf17-00.txt). I would not object if > henceforward people referred to that as KW-UTF-17, to avoid > confusion. :-)
A couple of years ago I suggested calling these "XTF's," to distinguish them from the official "UTF's." I've added a bit to the confusivity, with ha-ha-only-serious schemes called DUCK (Doug's Unicode Compression Kludge) and MUCK (Multigraph Unicode Compression Kludge), plus something I called "dynamic code pages" which never saw the light of day, and probably never will because of their really, really bad performance. But mostly I've carried other people's jokes (and serious proposals) to the logical extreme and beyond, by creating fully functional and tested implementations of: â UTF-4 by Jill Ramonsky (name provided by John Cowan) â UTF-5 by James Seng, Martin DÃrst, and Tin Wee Tan â UTF-7d5 by JÃrg Knappen â UTF-8C1 by Markus Scherer â UTF-9 by Jerome Abela (not Mark Crispin's version) â UTF-17 by Ken â UTF-24 by Pim Blokland â UTF-64 by Marco and Paul KeinÃnen â UTF-mu by Marco â UTF-Z by Marco â XTF-3 by Shlomi Tal as well as some more serious formats: â UTF-1 (the "original" Unicode Transformation Format) â UTF-EBCDIC (described in meticulous detail in UTR #16) Currently I'm working on a much more useful project: a "clean-room" encoder and decoder for BOCU-1, possibly the world's first that doesn't just wrap the UTN #6 sample code. And on the lighter side, I recently dredged up Misha Wolf's original 1995 description of RCSU, the predecessor of SCSU, and started experimenting with an encoder and decoder: http://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/Archives-Old/UML001/0242.htm l -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
