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- From: rap@news (Ross Paterson)
- Newsgroups: comp.std.internat,news.admin.misc
- Subject: Re: 8-bit representation, plus an X problem
- Date: 17 Dec 1992 12:31:06 GMT
- Organization: Dept. of Computing, Imperial College, University of London, UK.
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- References: <24426@alice.att.com|
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- From article <24426@alice.att.com|, by andrew@alice.att.com (Andrew Hume):
- | [...]
- | thirdly, the Plan 9 encoding is the same as the FSS-UTF
- | encoding being considered for adoption by X/Open as the
- | recommended encoding for 10646 text streams. (i believe it
- | has been approved by the technical committee and is wending
- | its way through some process inside X/Open.)
-
- It's hard to imagine that FSS-UTF will be popular with users of those
- alphabets (all originating in Asia, BTW) whose letters are going to
- take up 3 bytes, while they take up 2 in UTF-1 and 7 bits or so in
- existing standards.
-
- Ross
-