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- From: glenn@wheat-chex.ai.mit.edu (Glenn A. Adams)
- Newsgroups: comp.std.internat,news.admin.misc
- Subject: Re: 8-bit representation, plus an X problem
- Date: 17 Dec 1992 15:50:23 GMT
- Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
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- In article <keld.724583811@login.dkuug.dk> keld@login.dkuug.dk (Keld J|rn Simonsen) writes:
- >POSIX .2b is planned to include the Plan9/XOpen encoding of 10646.
- >Here the UTF2 encoding will be normatively defined by ISO.
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- I find it extremely doubtful that it "will be normatively defined."
- Especially, since UTF-1 is only an informative annex. I would expect
- other UTF-* to also be informative, and not normative.
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- Of course, a usage profile might wish to make it normative, but that would be
- outside the scope of 10646.
-
- Glenn Adams
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