Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> By author: "Carl W. Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In newsgroup: linux.utf8 > > But UTF-8 is not without its own problems. Take Oracle for example. They > designed UTF-8 to encode UCS-2 not UTF-16. > Bull. Oracle f*cked up, multiple times (including sorting UTF-16 in UTF-16 binary order instead of Unicode order) and are trying to justify it. UTF-8, which was designed by X/Open, I believe, encodes integers from 0 to 0x7FFFFFFF which happens to correspond with UCS-4. This is yet another example on why UTF-16 is such an enormous screwup... -hpa -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> at work, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> in private! "Unix gives you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot." http://www.zytor.com/~hpa/puzzle.txt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
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