Re: UTF-8 as the single common encoding everywhere

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>]

Followup to:  <CMM.0.90.4.991864985.fdc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
By author:    Frank da Cruz <fdc@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
In newsgroup: linux.utf8
> 
> The UTF-8 which allows non-shortest sequences to be read versus the one that
> does not.  The UTF-8 which emits non-shortest sequences versus one that does
> not.  The UTF-8 which "decodes" surrogates versus the one that treats them as
> if they were regular UCS-2 characters.  The UTF-8 that is limited to 6-bit
> seqences versus the unlimited one.  There's a lot of talk on the Unico[dr]e
> lists about this recently, and new proposals for modifications to UTF-8
> surface all the time (the current hot topic is UTF-8S, proposed by Oracle).
> 

There is only one UTF-8.  The rest are bugs.

	-hpa
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