On Sun, 8 Dec 1996, Keld J|rn Simonsen wrote: > Koen Holtman writes: > > > But skimming the UTF-8 specification, I gather that UTF-8 is an encoding > > mechanism, not a character set. > > Well, no. UTF8 is an encoding of characters. It implies the character > repertoire of ISO 10646. So it is a charset in MIME sense, including > the specific character definitions of 10646. You cannot use UTF8 > to encode Japanese X0208 for example. Exactly. Just see what UTF is standing for: UCS Transfer Format. Now UCS is Universal Character Set, which is the character set defined by ISO 10646. Regards, Martin.Received on Tuesday, 10 December 1996 09:39:48 GMT
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