- From: John C Klensin <klensin@mci.net>
- Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 10:48:08 -0400 (EDT)
- To: Harald.T.Alvestrand@uninett.no
- Cc: fielding@kiwi.ICS.UCI.EDU, uri@bunyip.com, Dan Oscarsson <Dan.Oscarsson@trab.se>
On Wed, 16 Apr 1997 10:35:16 +0200 Harald.T.Alvestrand@uninett.no wrote: > Factoid: > > UTF-8 is not user-friendly in 8859-1; the standard coding octets for > putting the 8859-1 charset into UTF-8 insert one character in front of > each character, and also change the last character for the 4 uppermost > columns of the 8859-1 character table. My apologies. I should have said something more like "more user-friendly for Latin-1 than it is for upper-end ideographic characters, where it deteriorates even more severely :-( Given the bad behavior *even* for 8859-1, could someone please remind me why we are pushing the thing rather than a straight 16 or 32-bit encoding with compression if needed? (Please, that is a rhetorical question only -- we don't need another flaming chain on the subject). john
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