Re: The future of UTF-8

From: Torsten Mohrin (mohrin@sharmahd.com)
Date: Fri Jul 23 1999 - 07:20:39 EDT

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On Thu, 22 Jul 1999 12:33:06 -0700 (PDT), Kenneth Whistler wrote:

>UTF-32 (not fully approved yet, but in a Draft Unicode Technical
>Report) is a fixed-width encoding *form* of Unicode. The scalar
>value is expressed as 1 32-bit integer.

Could you please clarify the difference between the terms "UCS-4" and
"UTF-32". "UTF-32" isn't mentioned anywhere in Unicode 2.0, right?

Thanks.

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