UTF-8 was defined before UTF-16. At the time it was first defined, there
were no surrogates, so there was no special handling of the D800..DFFF code
points.
Mark
----- Original Message -----
From: "Misha Wolf" <Misha.Wolf@reuters.com>
To: "Mark Davis" <mark@macchiato.com>
Cc: <unicode@unicode.org>
Sent: Monday, June 11, 2001 10:20
Subject: Re: UTF8 vs AL32UTF8
>
>
> On 11/06/2001 16:18:15 Mark Davis wrote:
> [...]
>
> > - Oracle could probably make a case for their name for UTF8 simply being
an
> > anachronism. After all, the original definition of UTF-8 did convert
> > surrogate pairs as they are doing in what they call UTF8.
>
> Which original definition?
>
> Misha
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