On Mon, 21 Jun 2010, Philippe Verdy wrote:
Yes, this is smart, especially for its exact mapping to Base64, where it will even be superior to UTF-8 in many more cases (there should be a comparison table of sizes between UTF-8, UTF-16 and UTF-12 in the Base64 transport encoding).
To compute the Base64 size, one simply multiplies the binary size by 4/3 (1.333), so an additional table is not so much necessary.
You should also add, somewhere in the last section of your web document, that Base64 is not just well suited to 7-bit only environments, but as well to many 7-bit and 8-bit environments that require MIME compatibility for controls and spaces (notably in emails). After all, Base64 was first designed and standardized exactly for that purpose.
I added something about MIME.
One more question : Your page is copyrighted and signed by you (with your email address as the contact) ; this is absolutely not a problem (in fact it is a good practice for all publications on the web), but there does not seem to exist any proposed licence on your page, so the only way to get one would be to contact you via your displayed email address. Can this specification page be licenced by you in an open or free way on this page, possibly dual-licenced under Creative Commons (CC-BY-SA : author's attribution required, share-alike) or LGPL (because it describes an algorithm, assimilable to library source code that will then be freely modifiable and implementable) ?
I added both licenses. See http://tapemark.narod.ru/comp/utf12en.html
