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

From: Peter_Constable@sil.org
Date: Tue Jun 26 2001 - 03:11:46 EDT


On 06/25/2001 02:13:02 AM Marco Cimarosti wrote:

>5) UTF-32S is a borderline case. I am quite sure that it was proposed with
>tongue in cheek...

No, it was proposed in all seriousness in the same document in which Oracle
and friends proposed UTF-8s.

>6) UTF-16X (also named UTF-16S or UTF-16F) is definitely humor, although I
>am probably not the only one to think that it is technically more
"serious"
>than UTF-8S.

I didn't get the impression that it was presented with humour in mind. I
didn't read the original message in which it was introduced carefully,
however. But it seems to me that it did get picked up as a serious
possibility for consideration / comparison in the UTF-8s discussion.

>OK. End of deadly serious content. Please everybody restart joking.

Oops! Sorry, I was being altogether too serious.

- Peter

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