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- From: jenkinsj@blowfish.taligent.com (John H. Jenkins)
- Subject: Re: ISO 10646 the final character set?
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- References: <BstGEq.7E7@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> <q++ygqb@rpi.edu> <1992Aug11.221914.7798@csc.ti.com> <23302B@erik.naggum.no> <jenkinsj-120892082033@tseng.taligent.com> <23302J@erik.naggum.no> <Bswu4x.80r@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> <23303A@erik.naggum.no>
- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 22:26:27 GMT
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- In article <23303A@erik.naggum.no>, enag@ifi.uio.no (Erik Naggum) wrote:
- >
- > Markus Kuhn <mskuhn@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> writes:
- > |
- > | What means UCS (after ISO 10646) in Erik Naggum's .sig? United Character
- > | Set? What other terms are defined in ISO 10646 (MBP, ...)?
- >
- > That's the abbreviation after the standard's full name, which is (was,
- > at DIS stage, anyway):
- >
- > Information technology -- Universal Multiple-Octet Coded
- > Character Set (UCS)
- >
- > I seem to remember that somebody wanted "multiple-octet" removed from
- > the title. Anybody else know the details on this?
- >
-
- I don't know if it came up at WG2 in Seoul, but it did come up at X3L2 last
- month.
- I'd have to actually dig through my list of country comments to see if
- anybody in fact suggested the name change (I believe somebody did), but I'm
- too lazy to do that right now.
-
- The problem with the name "multiple-octet" is that it implies that 10646
- text can be processed as a series of bytes instead of as a series of words
- or longwords. This can be disastrous in C because of the NUL octets in
- some character codes. Changing the name to avoid this implication would
- be nice, but ISO regulations would consider changing the standard's name a
- major revision, which would require a third ballot, and *nobody* wanted a
- third ballot.
-
- John H. Jenkins
- John_Jenkins@taligent.com
-