Re: Playing with Unicode (was: Re: UTF-17)

From: Edward Cherlin (Edward.Cherlin.SY.67@aya.yale.edu)
Date: Sun Jun 24 2001 - 18:41:10 EDT


At 12:29 PM 6/23/2001, Michael (michka) Kaplan wrote:
>From: <DougEwell2@cs.com>
...
> > To keep well-meaning people from misinterpreting humorous UTF proposals as
> > serious, while still allowing the levity to flow freely, I hereby propose
> > that UTFs proposed in a non-serious light be indicated in lower-case
>letters
> > (e.g. utf-64, utf-17) while the serious UTFs and proposals should remain
>in
> > upper-case (e.g. UTF-8, UTF-16).
>
>A proposal needs a definition, though:
>
> UTF would mean "Unicode Transformation Format"
> utf would mean "Unicode Terrible Farce"

untenable total figment?



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