🚀 go-pugleaf

rap@news (Ross Paterson) writes:

>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.

It should also be noted, that at least one existing OS (Windows NT)
uses a 2 byte encoding both internally (e.g. in filenames in Fnodes
on the disc) as well as in text files. Text files always begin with
FEFF as a magic code for ISO 10646 textes. This code also indicates,
whether it is a littleendian file.

Markus

-- 
Markus Kuhn, Computer Science student -=-=- University of Erlangen, Germany
Internet: mskuhn@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de  |  X.500 entry available
----- Anyone participating in the use of MS-DOS, Heroin or Cocaine is -----
---- simply not getting the most out of life possible. (Brian Downing) ----