Re: CESU-8 vs UTF-8

2001-09-15 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
Carl, Doug, The issues you and Doug brought up were vigorously discussed. For the decision, all I can say is that not everyone voted for it (which will be a matter of public record once the preliminary minutes are posted). D> This section of the TR amazed me. In the Summary and D> elsewhere, CE

RE: CESU-8 vs UTF-8

2001-09-15 Thread Carl W. Brown
Doug, > > This was my solution long ago: fix the code that sorts in UCS-2 > order so that > supplementary characters are sorted correctly. In case there is any > disagreement about this, sorting by UCS-2 order has been WRONG ever since > surrogates and UTF-16 were invented. > > However, the data

Re: CESU-8 vs UTF-8

2001-09-15 Thread DougEwell2
"Carl W. Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is not a true statement. "It is not intended nor recommended as an > encoding used for open information exchange." is false. Its intent is to > layout a format encoding between Oracle and Peoplesoft code in the hopes > that they can get other d

RE: Unicode and the UTF8 encoding in HTML

2001-09-15 Thread Paul Deuter
Hi James, In ASP programming, there are a number of statements that you should include to accomplish proper internationalization and character set handling: 1. Session.LCID = 1036; ' or whatever - be sure to set the Session.LCID property to the proper locale for the user. By settin

Re: Collation (was RE: [OT] o-circumflex)

2001-09-15 Thread Christopher JS Vance
On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 12:40:30AM -0700, Edward Cherlin wrote: : For example, : : 1984 (Nineteen Eighty Four) : 1066 and all that (Ten Sixty Six) : 3001 (Three Thousand One) : 2050 (Twenty Fifty) : 2010 (Twenty Ten) : 2001, A Space Odyssey (Two Thousand One) You're missing the "and" from 3001 a

Re: The byte

2001-09-15 Thread
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RE: CESU-8 vs UTF-8 (Was: PDUTR #26 posted

2001-09-15 Thread Carl W. Brown
Sorry but I left out three points. 1) Why ask for an IANA character set designation for "internal use within systems processing Unicode"? This is a definite indication that the real intent goes well beyond even the multi-vendor application to data base interfaces. It is apparent that the real i