Don Cragun <don.cragun at sun.com> wrote:
> >BTW: Regarding our talk... I checked the POSIX standard and it turns out
> >that od(1) support for UTF-8 "chars" is fully optional. There is no need to
> >support it.
> >
> >
> >
> >J?rg
>
> Joerg,
> This is only partly true.
Please also comment Rolands claim that UNICODE is not a lossless coding.
Roland mentioned this recently without giving evidence.
I can hardly believe that the 21 bit coding used by UNICODE still has problems
to map other codings. UNICODE has been designed to be a lossless coding....
J?rg
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