Re: Revision of UTF-8 history in draft-yergeau-rfc2279bis-05.txt

[John Cowan <jcowan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Markus Kuhn scripsit:

> Now, who invented UTF-16?

The authors of X3L2/93-106, whomever they may have been:
at a guess, Rick McGowan and Joe Becker.
The oldest document referring to UTF-16 (as "Proposal for Extended
UCS-2, being also a Proposal for Extended Unicode") appears to be
http://www.unicode.org/Public/TEXT/ALLOC.TXT , dated 1993-04-11.

The alternative proposal was to extend the old O-Zone (what is now the
surrogates area) to 94 rows so that random national standards could be
swapped in to the 94x94 space, a kind of giant ISO 2022 for 16 bits.

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