Re: [Ltru] Re: UTF-8

[Addison Phillips <addison at yahoo-inc.com>]

This thread is very amusing, but, I think, not very useful. I think that 
using a widely-recognized, plain-text character encoding (UTF-8: "the 
new ASCII") would be a Good Thing. But changing which escape syntax we 
use, especially to use something, um, "unusual" like UTF-1 or BOCU-1, 
gives us nothing over using US-ASCII with some escape syntax (such as 
our existing NCR format).

So:

Is there any support for changing to UTF-8?

Addison

Frank Ellermann wrote:
> Doug Ewell wrote:
>
> > I'm not sure why you chose 0x86 as your sequence introducer
>
> Six is the number of trailing octets: 91909F9F9F9F (for John's
> example u+10FFFF).
>
> > you could make each sequence 1 byte shorter by marking the
> > lead or trail byte specially
>
> Yes, but then only 2 octets (80+81) would never occur (instead
> of 11), and lost 9x bytes won't cause an error.  UTF-8 has now
> 13 "impossible" octets, and similar features.

--
Addison Phillips
Globalization Architect -- Yahoo! Inc.

Internationalization is an architecture.
It is not a feature.

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