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Re: RFC 2047 and gatewaying

2003-01-13 06:07:26

Charles Lindsey wrote:
In <3E201A63(_dot_)6060100(_at_)Sonietta(_dot_)blilly(_dot_)com> Bruce Lilly 
<blilly(_at_)erols(_dot_)com> writes:


Charles Lindsey wrote:


But it doesn't. Unicode 3.2 is the current standard, and defines precisely
what is allowed in UTF-8. All earlier versions are obsolete.


So overnight all of the MS Windows 95, 98, NT, and 2000 implementations
mysteriously vanished?


That is Bill Gates' problem. However, I doubt any of them ever generated
the deprecated (and now illegal) forms of UTF-8.

Please use a little common sense; Unicode 3.1 was introduced in mid-2001.
All of the aforementioned "operating" systems predate that (and many are
still in widespread use).