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- From: sakkinen@jyu.fi (Markku Sakkinen)
- Subject: Re: ISO 10646 the final character set?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug14.051609.8673@jyu.fi>
- Organization: University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
- References: <Bswu4x.80r@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> <23303A@erik.naggum.no> <jenkinsj-130892151628@tseng.taligent.com>
- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 05:16:09 GMT
- Lines: 33
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- In article <jenkinsj-130892151628@tseng.taligent.com> jenkinsj@blowfish.taligent.com (John H. Jenkins) writes:
- >In article <23303A@erik.naggum.no>, enag@ifi.uio.no (Erik Naggum) wrote:
- >> ...
- >> 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?
- > ...
- >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.
-
- I don't think that the stupid idiosyncrasies of one particular
- programming language should be taken into account when a long-time
- universal character code is defined.
-
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