RE: UTF-16 problems

From: Shigemichi Yazawa (yazawa@globalsight.com)
Date: Tue Jun 12 2001 - 01:46:50 EDT


At Mon, 11 Jun 2001 15:43:42 -0700,
Carl W. Brown <cbrown@xnetinc.com> wrote:
> I first I thought the same thing but I have changed my mind. There are
> problems but the problems are with UTF-16 not UTF-8.

I don't think your new UTF-16 propesal solves any problem. It's yet
another encoding. It won't replace the existing UTF-16. The right
thing to do is to sort in order of Unicode scalar value regardless of
the encodings. Period. The only reason of existence on an encoding
(such as UTF-8S) is to produce the same result of the binary sort with
the other encoding seems so silly.

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Shigemichi Yazawa
yazawa@globalsight.com



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