Re: 8-bit representation, plus an X problem

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From: Ross Paterson
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 12:31

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From article <24426@alice.att.com|, by andrew@alice.att.com (Andrew Hume):
| [...]
| 	thirdly, the Plan 9 encoding is the same as the FSS-UTF
| encoding being considered for adoption by X/Open as the
| recommended encoding for 10646 text streams. (i believe it
| has been approved by the technical committee and is wending
| its way through some process inside X/Open.)

It's hard to imagine that FSS-UTF will be popular with users of those
alphabets (all originating in Asia, BTW) whose letters are going to
take up 3 bytes, while they take up 2 in UTF-1 and 7 bits or so in
existing standards.

Ross

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From: rap@news (Ross Paterson)
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Subject: Re: 8-bit representation, plus an X problem
Date: 17 Dec 1992 12:31:06 GMT
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