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From: Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
Cc: juri@jurta.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org,
	mituharu@math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp, jasonr@gnu.org
Subject: Re: UCS-2BE
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 21:57:25 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1GJ8aL-0008Jq-00@etlken> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jeejuv7or8.fsf@sykes.suse.de> (message from Andreas Schwab on Fri, 01 Sep 2006 14:30:35 +0200)

In article <jeejuv7or8.fsf@sykes.suse.de>, Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> writes:

> Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org> writes:
> > By the way, why do people want such many variants... sigh...

> Actually, sane people only want UTF-8. :-)

Actually, UTF-8 is not that sane nowadays because it may
have BOM <EF BB BF>.  I read Unicode 4.1 but it doesn't
define how to treat the heading byte sequence <EF BB BF> of
UTF-8.  It says, in short, "be careful"!!!  Sigh...

Is the situation somehow improved in Unicode 5.0?

---
Kenichi Handa
handa@m17n.org

  reply	other threads:[~2006-09-01 12:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-30 22:54 UCS-2BE Juri Linkov
2006-08-31  9:09 ` UCS-2BE Jason Rumney
2006-08-31 10:23   ` UCS-2BE Kenichi Handa
2006-08-31 10:39     ` UCS-2BE Jason Rumney
2006-08-31 10:55       ` UCS-2BE Kenichi Handa
2006-08-31 11:56         ` UCS-2BE Andreas Schwab
2006-08-31 12:16           ` UCS-2BE Kenichi Handa
2006-08-31 14:33             ` UCS-2BE Andreas Schwab
2006-08-31 22:48               ` UCS-2BE Kenichi Handa
2006-08-31 23:02                 ` UCS-2BE Andreas Schwab
2006-09-01  1:22                   ` UCS-2BE Kenichi Handa
2006-09-01  9:01                     ` UCS-2BE Andreas Schwab
2006-09-01 11:28                       ` UCS-2BE Kenichi Handa
2006-08-31 23:32             ` UCS-2BE Juri Linkov
2006-09-01  1:19               ` UCS-2BE Kenichi Handa
2006-09-01 11:30                 ` UCS-2BE YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2006-09-01 12:26                   ` UCS-2BE Kenichi Handa
2006-09-01 12:30                     ` UCS-2BE Andreas Schwab
2006-09-01 12:57                       ` Kenichi Handa [this message]
2006-09-01 17:08                     ` UCS-2BE Stefan Monnier
2006-09-01 23:45                     ` UCS-2BE Juri Linkov
2006-09-02  1:27                       ` UCS-2BE Kenichi Handa
     [not found] <E1GIw3v-00059X-TI@monty-python.gnu.org>
2006-08-31 23:36 ` UCS-2BE Jonathan Yavner

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