Re: internationalization/ISO10646 question

Chris,

> Is UTF-8 perfect?

We agree :-)

>No.  But the costs greatly outweight the benefits when 
> compared to any other charset I've seen, and particularly when compared to 
> UTF-16.

I do not agree on this claim yet.  In particular, I'm concerned with the 6-byte 
representation of non-BMP characters.  When non-BMP characters become common, 
what will happen?

Cheers,

-- 
MURATA Makoto <murata@hokkaido.email.ne.jp>

Received on Thursday, 2 January 2003 21:10:33 UTC