Jill Ramonsky scripsit: > The only invented encoding which got any real use was the following > (currently nameless) one:
I believe the name "UTF-4" is currently unclaimed. :-) I like this idea. > Another interesting feature: starting from a random point in a string, > it is easy to scan backwards or forwards to find the start-byte or > end-byte of a character. This is valuable, as it means that you don't > have to parse a string from the beginning in order not to get lost. UTF-8 has this property too. This protocol lacks, however, the binary sorting property that UTF-8 has. -- John Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ccil.org/~cowan www.reutershealth.com "If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants." --Isaac Newton