Re: [idn] What's wrong with skwan-utf8?

["J. William Semich" <bill@mail.nic.nu>]

Try "Plan 9." <grin>

See:

http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/magic/man2html/6/utf


"The Plan 9 character set and representation are based on the Unicode
Standard and on the ISO multibyte UTF-8 encoding (Universal Character Set
Transformation Format, 8 bits wide). The Unicode Standard represents its
characters in 16 bits; UTF-8 represents such values in an 8-bit byte
stream. Throughout this manual, UTF-8 is shortened to UTF."

Available at http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/plan9dist/

Bill

At 05:31 PM 1/3/01 +0000, Brian W. Spolarich wrote:
>On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, J. William Semich wrote:
>
>| Yes. Windows 2000 Professional -  Multililanguage version.
>
>  I'm using Win2K right now.  :-)  The Character Map tool (and the
>underlying support behind it) is one of the nicest things that Microsoft
>has done.  Unfortunately lots of applications can't deal with the data, so
>you get lots of '???' sequences when you pass data around between
>applications.  This is actually a good example of the kind of boundary
>problem that IDN poses.
>
>  Windows-based OSes have very different semantics from POSIX-like and
>other Unix-y systems.
>
>  My implied question really was really about the POSIX/*nix stuff.
>
>  -bws
>
>