Re: Encoding conversions

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

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By author:    "Carl W. Brown" <cbrown@xxxxxxxxxxx>
In newsgroup: linux.utf8
> 
> But UTF-8 is not without its own problems.  Take Oracle for example.  They
> designed UTF-8 to encode UCS-2 not UTF-16.
> 

Bull.  Oracle f*cked up, multiple times (including sorting UTF-16 in
UTF-16 binary order instead of Unicode order) and are trying to
justify it.  UTF-8, which was designed by X/Open, I believe, encodes
integers from 0 to 0x7FFFFFFF which happens to correspond with UCS-4.

This is yet another example on why UTF-16 is such an enormous
screwup...

	-hpa
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