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- From: keld@login.dkuug.dk (Keld J|rn Simonsen)
- Subject: Re: 8-bit representation, plus an X problem
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- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 22:04:04 GMT
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- glenn@wheat-chex.ai.mit.edu (Glenn A. Adams) writes:
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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.
-
- >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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- The UTF-2 encoding is not planned to be normative in ISO 10646,
- but in ISO 9945-2.
-
- Keld
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