The topic came up in a UTC meeting some time ago, a "UTF-8S". The motivation
was for performance (having a form that reproduces the binary order of
UTF-16). We have yet to see a formal proposal for this, though.
Mark
----- Original Message -----
From: "J M Sykes" <mike.sykes@acm.org>
To: "Unicode List" <unicode@unicode.org>
Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 03:50
Subject: Re: [OT] Unicode-compatible SQL?
> I have heard a rumour (i.e. my source is not involved in the reported
> activity) that:
>
> <quote>
> SAP, PeopleSoft, Siebel, Oracle and others are actually
> in the process of proposing a new format of UTF that will cause a UTF-16
> surrogate pair to become two 3-byte UTF-8 codepoints so that UTF-8 will
> have the same behaviour as UTF-16, that is, a surrogate will be two UTF-8
> code points.
> </quote>
>
> Can anyone corroborate this, and, if it's true, offer an opinion on it?
>
> I may add that, as some of you already know, a small group in the UK
(which
> includes me) is working on a proposal intended to improve the SQL standard
> specification with regard to the treatment of Unicode data by an
> SQL-implementation.
>
> The competent bodies are ISO/IEC SC 32/WG 3, ANSI NCITS H2, BSI IST/40 and
> other national bodies.
>
> We expect that most of the parties most interested, principally SQL
> implementors, are already represented either directly or indirectly on one
> or more competent bodies. But if anyone else is interested, please feel
free
> to download the current, incomplete, provisional draft of the proposal
from:
>
> ftp://jerry.ece.umassd.edu/pub/SC32/WG3/TEMPdocs
>
> where the files containing two different versions are jms01v6 and jms01v7
> each of which is in both w97.doc and .pdf format.
>
> All comments will be seriously considered.
>
> Mike Sykes
>
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