Philippe Verdy <verdy_p at wanadoo dot fr> wrote:

> And probably some remaining devices using 5-bit or 6-bit encodings...
> Unicode does not specify encodings out of the UTF-* series.

SCSU:
http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr6/

BOCU-1:
(just a Technical Note, may not count as a Unicode "specification")
http://www.unicode.org/notes/tn6/


> I do think that there may also exist some EBCDIC-based transform for
> Unicode similar to UTF-8, except that the UTF-8 bytes are remapped to
> their basic EBCDIC codes (those that do not depend on locale variants,
> and correspond to ASCII bytes and a few EBCDIC "C1" codes), using the
> holes to remap the missing byte values needed to represent the full
> range of UTF-8 encoding byte values 0x00 to 0xFB.

UTF-EBCDIC:
http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr16/


-Doug Ewell
 Fullerton, California
 http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/


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