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Re: Charset "iso-10646-1"

From: Masayasu Ishikawa <mimasa@w3.org>
Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2001 01:22:29 +0900 (JST)
Message-Id: <20010901.012229.74729789.mimasa@w3.org>
To: www-validator@w3.org 
Terje Bless <link@pobox.com> wrote:

> 1. ISO-10646-1, aka. "Unicode" specifies a set of characters. It does
>    not specify how to encode them into bits and bytes in your document.

That's somewhat misleading.  Both ISO/IEC 10646-1 and the Unicode
Standard do specify how to encode UCS into UCS Transformation formats,
such as UTF-16 and UTF-8.

Regards,
-- 
Masayasu Ishikawa / mimasa@w3.org
W3C - World Wide Web Consortium
Received on Friday, 31 August 2001 12:22:42 GMT

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