- From: Keld J|rn Simonsen <keld@dkuug.dk>
- Date: Sun, 8 Dec 1996 14:17:17 +0100
- To: koen@win.tue.nl (Koen Holtman), kweide@tezcat.com (Klaus Weide), www-international@w3.org
- Cc: masinter@parc.xerox.com, http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
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. Keld
Received on Sunday, 8 December 1996 08:17:20 UTC