RE: UTF-7 and java

Thierry,

How long do we have to maintain 7 bit telecommunications capability?  It is
almost as old as 5 bit Baudout and I don't suspect that many browsers
support that or paper tape for that matter.

Carl

> -----Original Message-----
> From: www-international-request@w3.org
> [mailto:www-international-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of Thierry Sourbier
> Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 7:10 AM
> To: Khurram Ilyas; www-international@w3.org
> Subject: Re: UTF-7 and java
>
>
> I don't know why UTF-7 is not included as a supported encoding in Java. I
> don't think that UTF-7 has been updated to support efficiently characters
> outside of Plan zero (the RFC 2152 assumes 16 bits characters),
> but I never
> had the opportunity to use UTF-7 may be that just a wrong guess...
>
> > Are UTF-7 and ASCII charactersets almost the same?
> Don't confuse encoding and character set. To simplify things
> UTF-7 is indeed
> designed to make use of only the mail safe ASCII values, but the trade off
> is that several values are often needed to form one character while each
> value represents a character in ASCII. UTF-7 allows you to represent any
> Unicode character while ASCII stops at the first 128. If you ever
> attempt in
> Java to convert a string in ASCII all characters above 128 (that's pretty
> all non-English characters) will be replaced with a '?', I guess you don't
> want to go there :).
>
> I unfortunatelly think you'll need to bite the bullet and write
> the code to
> transform a string into a UTF-7 byte stream. There are some C code samples
> available online:
>
> http://www.unicode.org/Public/PROGRAMS/CVTUTF/CVTUTF7.C (note that Unicode
> does consider it as obsolete :(.
> http://czyborra.com/utf/
>
> Cheers,
> Thierry.
>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Khurram Ilyas
> To: www-international@w3.org
> Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 2:08 PM
> Subject: UTF-7 and java
>
>
> Hi,
> I was facing a problem while dealing with the i18n issues in regard to
> UTF-7. I was working on conversion to and from UTF-7 character set using
> java. However it seems that UTF-7 is not one of the supported
> encodings for
> java. The ByteToChar class for UTF-7 also seems to be missing in i18n.jar.
> Are UTF-7 and ASCII charactersets almost the same?  Or is their any reason
> for not including it in java.  Plus are there any work arounds.
> In case you have any advice as to how to deal with the issue please let me
> know.
> Thanx in advance.
>
> Best Regards,
> Khurram Ilyas Chaudhry
>
>
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