Okay. Thanks.
Basically I need to document that Oracle "AL32UTF8" should be used
as the client charset in preference to the older "UTF8" because
"UTF8" doesn't do the "best"? thing with surrogate pairs.
"because what Oracle calls UTF8 is not conformant with the modern
definition of UTF8"
Seems like "best" is the, er, best word to use here as "right"
would be too strong. But then the "shortest form" requirement
is quite strong so perhaps "modern standard" would be the right words.
Tim.
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