Re: Charset "iso-10646-1"

From: Masayasu Ishikawa (mimasa@w3.org)
Date: Fri, Aug 31 2001

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    Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2001 01:22:29 +0900 (JST)
    Message-Id: <20010901.012229.74729789.mimasa@w3.org>
    From: Masayasu Ishikawa <mimasa@w3.org>
    To: www-validator@w3.org
    Subject: Re: Charset "iso-10646-1"
    
    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,
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    Masayasu Ishikawa / mimasa@w3.org
    W3C - World Wide Web Consortium