On Thu, 05 Nov 2015 13:41:42 -0700 "Doug Ewell" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Richard Wordingham wrote: > > > No-one's claiming it is for a Unicode Transformation Format (UTF). > > Then they ought not to call it "UTF-8" or "extended" or "modified" > UTF-8, or anything of the sort, even if the bit-shifting algorithm is > based on UTF-8. > "UTF-8 encoding form" is defined as a mapping of Unicode scalar values > -- not arbitrary integers -- onto byte sequences. [D92] If it extends the mapping of Unicode scalar values *into* byte sequences, then it's an extension. A non-trivial extension of a mapping of scalar values has to have a larger domain. I'm assuming that 'UTF-8' and 'UTF' are not registered trademarks. Richard.
