- From: Martin J. Duerst <mduerst@ifi.unizh.ch>
- Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 15:39:51 +0100 (MET)
- To: Keld J|rn Simonsen <keld@dkuug.dk>
- cc: Koen Holtman <koen@win.tue.nl>, Klaus Weide <kweide@tezcat.com>, www-international@w3.org, masinter@parc.xerox.com, http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
On Sun, 8 Dec 1996, Keld J|rn Simonsen wrote: > 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. Exactly. Just see what UTF is standing for: UCS Transfer Format. Now UCS is Universal Character Set, which is the character set defined by ISO 10646. Regards, Martin.
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