- From: Gavin Nicol <gtn@ebt.com>
- Date: Wed, 5 Feb 1997 11:59:07 -0500
- To: mduerst@ifi.unizh.ch
- CC: misha.wolf@reuters.com, unicore@unicode.org, unicode@unicode.org, www-international@w3.org, search@mccmedia.com, iso10646@listproc.hcf.jhu.edu, http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com
>> I think it very unlikely that plain 16-bit Unicode will be adopted by >> browsers in the next year or two. > >Why not? It is more compact for East Asia (apart from the fact that >compression can be used anyway). I might understand if you would say >that it might not be adopted by content providers. But for browsers, >supporting UCS2/UTF-16 in addition to UTF-8 is an extremely small >addition, so I don't even see why there is discussion about it. As I said, I have a server *today* that can generate UCS-2. I would like to use that in Asia if I could.
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