On 11/02/2002 11:59:24 AM "Joseph Boyle" wrote:

>The first time I thought of UTF-8Y it sounded too flippant, but actually 
it
>is fairly self-explanatory if UTF-8 is taken as a given, and has the 
virtue
>of being short.

UTF-8Y (and UTF-8J) is not at all intuitive. "UTF-8-yuk"? The better 
counterpart IMO to UTF-8N[o BOM], if we need these labels at all, would be 
UTF-8B[OM].



- Peter


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