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- From: unrza3@cd4680fs.rrze.uni-erlangen.de (Markus Kuhn)
- Newsgroups: comp.std.internat
- Subject: Re: Dumb Americans (was INTERNATIONALIZATION: JAPAN, FAR EAST)
- Date: 7 Jan 1993 15:43:51 +0100
- Organization: Regionales Rechenzentrum Erlangen
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- terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes:
-
- >Consider that Runic encoding is antithetical in terms of single character
- >changes for fixed record length files by virtue of it's ability to either
- >change record size (destroying the seek-offset record addressing) or by
- >changing the amount of data representable in a field (destroying the
- >ability to use fixed-length fields for input in the front end client).
-
- The C type Rune has been defined in the Tompson paper about Plan 9 Unicode
- encoding as "unsigned short" = 16bit per character. The 1+ byte encoding is
- called by all people UTF (there are different versions, Plan 9 uses UTF-2).
- I believe you mixed up the meanings of UTF encoded and Runic encoding.
-
- It seems to be absolutely obvious that there are many applications,
- where a fixed length runic encoding with 16 bit/character is useful.
- That's also the reason, why UTF <-> Rune translation routines (which
- are very easy to implement) have been included in Plan 9 libraries.
-
- There are also very good reasons to use UTF, especially, where
- compatibility with ASCII is of benefit.
-
- Sorry, I don't understand your problem at all.
-
- Markus
-
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