Re: Translated IUC10 Web pages: Experimental Results

Chris Pratley wrote:

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>Our assumption was that UTF-8 was the only Web-safe encoding that was
>reasonably likely to be adopted by browsers in the near future. Is that
>the consensus, or are raw UCS2 encodings being considered actively by
>people on this alias? 

I think it very unlikely that plain 16-bit Unicode will be adopted by 
browsers in the next year or two.  The two encoding schemes which will 
be widely used to encode Unicode Web pages are:

   1.  UTF-8 (see <http://www.reuters.com/unicode/iuc10/x-utf8.html>).
   2.  Numeric Character References (see <http://www.reuters.com/unicode/iuc10/x-ncr.html>).

The second scheme is intriguing as it does not require the use of any 
octets over 127 decimal (7F hex).  Accordingly, it is legal to to label 
such a file as, eg, US-ASCII, ISO-8859-1, X-SJIS, or any other "charset" 
which has ASCII as a subset.  Browser vendors: Please check your products 
against the pages referenced above.

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Regards,
Misha