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Re: UTF-8 as the single common encoding everywhere

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Subject: Re: UTF-8 as the single common encoding everywhere
From: Keld Jørn Simonsen <keld@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 12:52:01 +0200
In-reply-to: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10106070412330.4595-100000@Sina.sharif.ac.ir>; from roozbeh@sharif.edu on Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 04:15:32AM +0430
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On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 04:15:32AM +0430, Roozbeh Pournader wrote:
> 
> 
> On 6 Jun 2001, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
> > There is only one UTF-8.
> 
> But which is that? The one described in RFC 2279, the one in ISO
> 10646-1:2000, or the one in Unicode 3.1? These are different.

Yes, that is right. The UTF-8 in 10646 and RFC 2279 covers
a 31 bit space, while Unicode 3.1 UTF-8 covers only a 21 bit
space. I think we should go with the RFC/ISO version.

Kind regards
Keld
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References:
- Re: UTF-8 as the single common encoding everywhere
  - From: H. Peter Anvin
- Re: UTF-8 as the single common encoding everywhere
  - From: Roozbeh Pournader

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