Re: proposal: UTF-20

From: Michael Everson (everson@indigo.ie)
Date: Mon Jan 25 1999 - 12:16:53 EST

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Ar 08:09 -0800 1999-01-25, scríobh schererm@us.ibm.com:

>I propose the UTF-20 encoding for Unicode/ISO-10646 as a compromise between
>compactness and the use of scalar integers for all characters in planes 0
>to 15. Planes 16 and above are not accessible.

Then it doesn't have much to do with ISO/IEC 10646, does it.

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