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- From: unrza3@cd4680fs.rrze.uni-erlangen.de (Markus Kuhn)
- Newsgroups: comp.std.internat,news.admin.misc
- Subject: Re: 8-bit representation, plus an X problem
- Date: 18 Dec 1992 19:29:22 +0100
- Organization: Regionales Rechenzentrum Erlangen
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- References: <24426@alice.att.com| <1gpruaINNhfm@frigate.doc.ic.ac.uk>
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- rap@news (Ross Paterson) writes:
-
- >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.
-
- It should also be noted, that at least one existing OS (Windows NT)
- uses a 2 byte encoding both internally (e.g. in filenames in Fnodes
- on the disc) as well as in text files. Text files always begin with
- FEFF as a magic code for ISO 10646 textes. This code also indicates,
- whether it is a littleendian file.
-
- Markus
-
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