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Re: UTF-8 versions (was: Re: RFC 2047 and gatewaying)

2003-01-14 20:12:17

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 Arnt Gulbrandsen <arnt(_at_)gulbrandsen(_dot_)priv(_dot_)no> writes:

Bruce Lilly writes:

Famous last words.  From my handy dead-tree copy of Unicode 2.0, page 
2-4, under the "Full Encoding heading":

"There are over 18,000 unassigned code positions that are available 
for future allocation. This number far exceeds anticipated character 
encoding requirements for all world characters and symbols."

Yep. I have that too. The fact that 18,000 isn't enough doesn't mean 
that about a million isn't enough.

And even if a million is not enough, the UTF-8 encoding, as currently
defined in RFC 2279, RFC 2279bis and Usefor is quite capable of coping
with the whole of UCS-32.

But perhaps even UCS-32 is not big enough for Bruce?

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