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From: "Ryan Moats" <jayhawk@ds.internic.net>
To: "Ron Daniel" <rdaniel@acl.lanl.gov>, "Toby Speight" <tms@ansa.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: [URN] UTF encodings - why UTF-8? (was: I18N does not belong ...)
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On Thu, 14 Nov 1996 08:37:03 -0700, Ron Daniel wrote:
>Thus spoke Toby Speight (at least at 02:48 PM 11/14/96 +0000)
>
>>Would somebody care to explain to me why this double encoding is
>>preferable to, say, UTF-7,
>
>We looked at UTF-7 awhile back. Our conclusion at that time was that
>UTF-8 would be preferable since UTF-7 would make us add '+' to the list
>of reserved characters and, depending on the context, would affect the
>handling of the '-' character as well.
>
Ron is correct. We will probably already have % encoding and it didn't
seem to net us much to add '+' encoding as well.
Sorry to be lagging, but keeping up with mail and my real job is starting