Re: Unicode details (no war!), the kernel, and filenames
Matthias Urlichs (smurf@lap.noris.de)
28 Aug 1997 08:06:55 +0200
James Mastros <root@jennifer-unix.dyn.ml.org> writes:
>
> But not raw unicode. The advantages to raw unicode are:
> 1) It always has 16 bits per charcter. Never less, never more.
Ask the Chinese people who are currently defining additional characters in
the 0x02xxxx range why this is not enough.
Since nobody in their right mind would want 32-bit characters (or 24-bit,
which is worse), UTF-8 is the way to go here.
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Matthias Urlichs
noris network GmbH