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In article <1992Dec9.202955.4809@HQ.Ileaf.COM>, walters@HQ.Ileaf.COM (Tim Walters) writes:
> For those of us not attending Usenix, would it be possible to get a
> brief description of the difference between fss-utf and utf? Or is
> there an ftp-able description somewhere?
> -- 
> Tim Walters, Interleaf          uunet!leafusa!walters, walters@HQ.Ileaf.com


	I have made available a package of the plan 9 utf related
manual pages on netlib. there is an ascii and postscript version
(utfman.asc and utfman.ps) in the directory research/memo.
that's all you nee dto know for netlib; for ftp, login
into research.att.com as netlib.

for a quick idea, i quote the man page:

          Letting numbers be binary, a rune x is converted to a multi-
          byte UTF sequence as follows:

          01. x in [00000000.0bbbbbbb] b 0bbbbbbb
          10. x in [00000bbb.bbbbbbbb] b 110bbbbb, 10bbbbbb
          11. x in [bbbbbbbb.bbbbbbbb] b 1110bbbb, 10bbbbbb, 10bbbbbb

          Conversion 01 provides a one-byte sequence that spans the
          ASCII character set in a compatible way.  Conversions 10 and
          11 represent higher-valued characters as sequences of two or
          three bytes with the high bit set.  Plan 9 does not support
          the 4, 5, and 6 byte sequences proposed by X-Open.  When
          there are multiple ways to encode a value, for example rune
          0, the shortest encoding is used.


andrew