At 11:13 AM +0200 6/25/01, Marco Cimarosti wrote:
>Hallo.
>
>I am one of those who started this childish joke of introducing implausible
>"UTF-..." acronyms at nearly every post.
>
>I found that the joke is getting very fun but also that it may be starting
>confusing people, so I fill compelled to quit joking for a moment and make
>clear which ones are the real UTF's and which ones aren't.
>
>Warning: unlike most of my messages this is deadly serious! This is the
>actual situation of UTF's.
>
>
>1) UTF-8, UTF-16 and UTF-32 are the only three real EXISTING Unicode
>Transformation Formats. They are official and part of the Unicode standard.
>
What about ISO-10646-UCS-2 and ISO-10646-UCS-4 as used in XML? Where
do they fit in? Are they only part of ISO-10646 and not Unicode? or
are they identical to UTF-16 and UTF-32? or something else?
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