RE: What if UTF-8 had been defined after UTF-16?

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Marjus Scherer wrote:
> What if UTF-8 had been defined just for the code point range
> 0..0x10ffff?
> What if UTF-8 had been designed to be not just
> "File-System-Safe" but also "Terminal-Safe"?

It probably would have been called UTF-7, and it would be in the process of
becoming a museum item :-)

_ Marco

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