Re: A UTF-8 based News Service

From: David Starner (dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org)
Date: Fri Jul 13 2001 - 14:11:02 EDT


From: Kevin Bracey <kevin.bracey@pace.co.uk>
> Much as I love SCSU, and much as my web browser supports it, it's not the
> sort of thing to start encouraging on the wire when there are already
> existing standards to deal with this.

Why not? It can be further compressed by currently existing mechanisms, and
if we can exchange dozens of charsets for 3 (UTF-8, UTF-16, SCSU), I'd say
that's a good win, since all three of those have their place.

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David Starner - dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org



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