Re: UTF8 vs. Unicode (UTF16) in code

[Lars Marius Garshol]

* John H. Jenkins
| 
| Some of the characters in Extension B are required for JIS X 0213
| support, which is going to be a sine qua non in Japan within a few
| years.

How will the Japanese encode these JIS X 0213 characters? That is,
what effect, if any, will this have on the legacy Japanese character
encodings? Are there plans to extend ISO 2022-JP or EUC-JP, or for
some entirely new Japanse character encodings?

--Lars M.