Peter_Constable@sil.org wrote:
> On 06/12/2001 01:13:48 PM Jianping Yang wrote:
>
> >If you convert < ED A0 80 ED B0 80 > into UTF-16, what does it mean then?
> I
> >think definitely it means U-00010000.
>
> I'd say not if that 6-byte sequence is interpreted in terms of *UTF-8*.
So UTF-8 is not compatible with UTF-16 even in its repository, which is not
guaranteed that you will have a round-trip conversion, which may be a *big*
issue.
>
> UTF-8 has no 6-byte sequences. It must be something else, like the thing
> informally designated in our discussions as UTF-8S.
UTF-8S proposal will keep round-trip conversion between UTF-16 and UTF-8S.
Please don't confuse UTF-8S with UTF-8 as they are different encoding forms
based on the proposal.
Regards,
Jianping.
>
>
> - Peter
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