Re: UTF-8 as the single common encoding everywhere

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

Followup to:  <Pine.LNX.4.10.10106092253340.9497-100000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
By author:    Roozbeh Pournader <roozbeh@xxxxxxxxxx>
In newsgroup: linux.utf8
> 
> On 9 Jun 2001, Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk wrote:
> 
> > Isn't ISO going to use the 20.1-bit space in a future version?
> 
> Yes, it is going to do that in Amendment 2 I think. But we have already
> comments here (from Markus and Larry) that they will continue to support
> 5-byte and 6-byte UTF-8, even if ISO restricts the space. :-(
> 

There is no reason not to.  There is no difference if you don't assign
code points in that space, and there is no aliasing.  Furthermore, it
makes you future-proof if/when someone realizes just how bad an idea
UTF-16 and 20.1 really is.

	-hpa

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