Re: More about SCSU (was: Re: A UTF-8 based News Service)

[Rick McGowan]

> Unfortunately, you don't hear much about SCSU, and in particular the Unicode 
> Consortium doesn't really seem to promote it much (although they may be
> trying to avoid the "too many UTF's" syndrome).

Probably that's one point.  But also, SCSU is something that's a little more  
complicated to use, and needs to be pretty well negotiated between sender  
and receiver.  It's much less suitable for general-purpose interchange.

        Rick