RE: BOF from John C Klensin on 1993-08-25 (ietf-charsets@w3.org from July to September 1993)

From: John C Klensin <KLENSIN@INFOODS.UNU.EDU>
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1993 13:09:04 -0400 (EDT)
To: mohta@NECOM830.CC.TITECH.AC.JP
Cc: jerman-blazic@IJS.SI, wg-char@RARE.NL, ietf-charsets@INNOSOFT.COM
Message-id: <746298544.554526.KLENSIN@INFOODS.UNU.EDU>

>UTF-2 is ASCII compatible, 8 bit oriented encoding scheme of 32 bit UCS4.

Something is either "ASCII compatible", or it is "8 bit oriented", but
it can't be both.   UTF-2 is the latter, and requires encoding to be
used over a 7bit ASCII transmission channel.


--Boundary (ID uEbHHWxWEwCKT9wM3evJ5w)

Received on Wednesday, 25 August 1993 10:10:21 UTC